Primarily Mac, version TBA

Over the Canada Day long weekend I had a chance to try FMP 8.5
Advanced on a buddy's PC. We made a little runtime solution that
worked great on a PC but I could see no way to save it as a Mac
runtime. I will be buying an upgrade or replacement product soon but
will need to make runtime solutions that will work on both PC and
Macs. What FM product will do this or do I have to buy separate PC and
Mac versions?

Thanks to you wonderful altruistic gurus from an inveterate lurker.

In article <1183519371.479989.314880 (AT) x35g2000prf (DOT) googlegroups.com>,
CRC123 <cra (AT) aalappraisals (DOT) ca> wrote:

The Developer / Advanced versions of FileMaker can create runtime
applications, but the application must be created on the appropriate
operating system - you can not create a Mac runtime application on a
Windows computer, and you can not create a Windows runtime application
on a Mac computer. The license you buy allows you to install onto one
Mac and one Windows computer so that you can test the database and
create these separate runtime applications.

Now that Macs use Intel chips and Mac OS X is standard (except for me
) ) FileMaker will finally get their act together and add the ability
to create either runtime from either operating system - REALBasic and
other programming environments have allowed you to create Windows
runtime applications on a Mac for a long time.


Helpful Harry
Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o)

On Jul 3, 11:11 pm, Helpful Harry <helpful_ha... (AT) nom (DOT) de.plume.com>
wrote:
Just to clarify, you can create the Filemaker database on either
platform, but you must bind the runtime on each platform separately.
So you create the solution, bind it on Windows, copy the solution to a
Mac, bind it on the Mac and copy both to one disk.

G

CRC123 wrote:

you can create the pc runtimes under Parallels on the mac

Chris

On Jul 4, 3:32 pm, Grip <g... (AT) cybermesa (DOT) com> wrote:
Yes. Thank you. But to bind, I assume I need a copy of Developer/
Advanced on each platform as described by HH above before I can bind
on the second platform, n'est-ce pas?

In article <1183608321.061974.158310 (AT) e9g2000prf (DOT) googlegroups.com>,
CRC123 <cra (AT) aalappraisals (DOT) ca> wrote:

Almost. You only need to buy ONE copy of Developer, but you're allowed
to install it on one Mac and one Windows PC (or one Mac and Parallels /
BootCamp / VirtualPC / VMWare).

Also, the data files themselves are the same for both (as long as you
use the same binding key), it's only the runtime application itself
which is different since it has to access the toolbox routines (draw
window, handle scroll bar, etc.) of the individual operating system.
This means you can create the two runtime applications, but only have
to edit one set of data files - these data files are also still
openable in normal FileMaker too via the Open command in the File menu.


You must remember to test the file on the other operating system as
well because minor problems can occur with things like fonts that
require layout items to be moved or resized.


Helpful Harry
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