What's New For Developers in FileMaker 7? Short Answer: A Lot!

摘要

Most FileMaker developers are clever do-it-yourselfers who like FileMaker because the features they want are all within easy reach. But over the last decade, a growing number of serious developers have been willing to stretch themselves to get to the harder-to-reach features that give FileMaker a surprising amount of power. And with FileMaker 7, the serious developers have much more to reach for. In this article I want to describe some of the. problems in earlier versions of FileMaker that made it an awkward environment for applications development, and then in each case, explain how FileMaker 7 has mitigated these old problems, and in some cases actually eliminated them. I'm going to cover a lot of ground here, and some of it will be covered in a hurry. I want to demonstrate that FileMaker 7 hasn't just improved in a few specific areas, but rather that is really does provide a broadly better set of tools to developers.