Frontier and Filemaker under OS X

[Tom Donovan]

Take a look at this site:

http://fmradio.inspiredsites.net/

It is a very cool project connecting to FMPro's webserver using XML.

Tom

On 4/8/02 11:04 PM, "Nick Cahill" <ndcahill at facstaff.wisc.edu> wrote:

> I recently upgraded from Frontier 6 under Mac OS 9 to Frontier 7 and
> then 8 under OS X, and have run into a problem that has stopped me
> dead. A number of my Frontier scripts call various Filemaker
> databases in simple ways -- for instance
> 
> DBRow =  get(record[cell[1] == someValue])
> 
> Under OS 9, (Frontier 6.0.5, Filemaker 5.0) this lookup was almost
> instantaneous. Under OS X, on the other hand, it can take 20-30
> seconds to retrieve a single record from a 1300-record database. This
> is a show-stopper since I often have to go through thousands of
> lookups.
> 
> I don't think this is a Frontier problem -- the same thing happens
> with Applescript under OS X. But I wonder if anyone out there has had
> a similar experience, and if there's a cure for it? Is anyone out
> there using Filemaker in this way, and have you run into speed
> problems -- or is it something purely local in my setup or copy of
> Filemaker or something? If anyone uses calls like this with success,
> I'd love to hear at least that it's possible.
> 
> I'm running Frontier 8.0.5, Filemaker 5.5v1, MacOS X 10.1.3 on a
> Powerbook G4 500 MHz, with 512 MB memory, if that's any help.
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Nick Cahill