Filemaker + Frontier + OSX

[Sean Elfstrom]

At 4:39 PM -0500 12/11/2002, Brian V Hughes wrote:
>On Wednesday, December 11, 2002, at 04:02  PM, sdevore at mac.com wrote:
>>I have seen problems with filemaker stability since os 10.2 directly from apple scripts, noticeably doing calls that contain "whose"  I have sent crash logs and bug reports to them, and have also seen similar reports on the apple-script list hosted by apple
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>I've seen similar reports on problems with "whose" clauses on the FileMaker and MacScripting mailing lists. I don't think this is a Frontier-only problem...

It's definitely a FileMaker (or Mac OS X) problem. I had to rewrite a LOT of AppleScripts to avoid whose clauses. I used find requests and take care to bring database windows to the front before attempting to get data from them. This has improved the reliability of my scripts tremendously.
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