Apple Events and Frontier

[Nick Cahill]

Many many thanks for your advice -- that seems to have done the trick.  
No mystical crashes since.

Nick Cahill



On Monday, October 21, 2002, at 06:22  PM, Sean Elfstrom wrote:

> At 4:47 PM -0500 10/21/02, Nick Cahill wrote:
>> I have been having trouble with Frontier passing Apple Events to  
>> Filemaker. I'm writing local html files from a Frontier outline, and  
>> uploading them to my university web server. Part of the script looks  
>> up an image archive number in a Filemaker database. The Frontier  
>> export script includes:
>>
>> with ObjectModel, FileMaker {
>> 	local (DBRow);
>> 	result = exists (record[cell[1] == curImage]);
>> 	if result == false {
>> 		dialog.alert ("couldn't find " + curImage)};
>> 	DBRow =  get(record[cell[1] == curImage]);
>
> [snip]
>
> I think you're problem is this part: "record[cell[1] == curImage]". It  
> has been my experience that FileMaker doesn't properly handle "whose  
> clauses" (AppleScript term for what you're trying to do) in Mac OS X.  
> I had to rewrite a lot of my scripts to use FileMaker find requests to  
> avoid this problem.
> --  
>
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