AppleEvents and OS X 10.2

[Nick Cahill]

Yes, that did it all right. Would it be worth posting this to the 
list in case someone else is having the same problem? It's not 
obvious on your web site -- unless I really missed it badly.

Thanks,

Nick

>At 10:07 AM -0500 9/9/02, Nick Cahill wrote:
>>Dear all,
>>
>>Has something changed with Apple Events and OS X 10.2? I upgraded 
>>to 10.2, and find that I can't get Frontier to talk reliably with 
>>Filemaker. I'm trying to do the simplest lookup on a Filemaker Pro 
>>database, something like:
>>
>>with fileMaker, objectModel {
>>	result = getData (record[cell["Archive"] == "1992.06.0234"])}
>>
>>This keeps returning the most peculiar errors, such as
>>
>>    Can't call "getData" because the only script it contains is named ""
>>
>>or
>>
>>    Can't find a sub-table named ""
>>
>>or something to do with "because 'as' is not defined."
>>
>>All these are generated by system.verbs.apps.Filemaker.getData failing.
>>
>>Often it ends up crashing either Filemaker or Frontier.
>>
>>Script Editor can do the find perfectly well -- with just "every 
>>record whose cell "Archive" = "1992.06.0234." So the problem is not 
>>with the OS or with Filemaker.
>>
>>I'm using Filemaker 5.5, a newly reinstalled copy of Frontier 8.05, 
>>on a clean installation of OS X 10.2.
>>
>>Any help would be greatly appreciated. What do you others do about 
>>looking stuff up in external databases? Do you use Filemaker, and 
>>if so, how?
>
>First, go here: <http://frontier-osx.userland.com/appleEventsBeta>
>
>If things still don't work, then please report back.
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