After I got home I recorded my entire session from this year's DevCon. Here it is along with all the files that I used in the session. Hope you enjoy.The video player below should allow you to play the video in HD and in full screen. Click "HD" for HD and the little...
I have been working on building some Rich UIs for FileMaker using the Rector Plugin from Digital Fusion. I really like this plugin. It lets me do just about anything I want with FileMaker Web Viewers. In this little example video, I show off a custom login screen...
UPDATE: this post is quite old. I still thing custom functions are not as portable as they should be. However in any complex solution I use the custom functions. The ones I use are from modularfilemaker.org Whats the best way to pass multiple parameters to a script?...
While John Sindelar and I were doing our West Coast FmPug tour we sat down with Matt Navarre to do a podcast. Actually we didn't sit, we stood, but you get the idea. We talked about the upcoming release of GoZync, and a bunch of other things, like the MacBook Air,...
I was complaining to Richard Gaskin of FouthWorld about how LiveCode's Application Browser showed plugin stacks. I almost never want to see those there. They just get in the way. Richard convinced me that I could create a Patcher Stack that would solve the problem....
When FileMaker Go first shipped, I wrote about it being a whole new platform. The opportunity that it presented was so big that I thought FileMaker Go would be come the first Platform that I would build for. But in the months after the release, I didn't even use it...
For years I have been using a recursive custom function to get a list of all the Selected Tab Panels on a layout. This works quite well, but in my current project I wanted to get rid of all custom functions. I didn't really want to use a looping script. I wanted a...
UPDATE: I got re-tweeted by Sencha Inc. it blew out my bandwidth at screencast.com. That is totally cool! I have been doing a lot of work with JavaScript lately. Specifically looking at how to build cross platform mobile web apps that connect to FileMaker. There...
After taking a couple of years off, I am happy to announce that I will once again be speaking at the FileMaker Developer's conference. The 2011 conference will be held in San Diego, CA, August 2-5, 2011 (Tuesday-Friday). I am very excited to be doing this again. I...
Geist Interactive is proud to announce the release of proSign v1.0. proSignp makes it easy to add signature capture to any FileMaker Pro solution. Signatures can be captured using any touch pad or pen and tablet input device. No special hardware is required. It runs...
This post is a direct response to a support request I got from a customer earlier today. The question was how do you change the size of the captured signature? It isn't too hard, but unless people are real familiar with how the web viewer works they might miss some...
I just came across an interesting little FileMaker quirk. The "Set Variable" script step does not allow you to begin the variable name with a space. But you can declare variables with the Let Statement can also declare variables and they can start with a Space. For...