Chris Hinder

Hello everyone. Little problem I'm having at the moment. I'm trying to 'lock down' a solution I've made by removing the status area. I have proper navigation within the solution. Whenever I remove the status area, the text I have within the header area gets.. 'changed'? It appears with the upper half of the text removed. If I put the status area back, the problem disappears. This happens to the text regardless of positioning within the header, regardless of header size. Can anyone shed any light on this? Is this a bug within FM7? FileMaker Version: 7 Platform: Windows XP

A lot of people will be comparing the two as they are quite similar, yet different in many ways. For me, the major difference is that I am far more familiar with FileMaker than I am with Servoy. For a very large database with many clients, I would look at Servoy. For a very small database, with one client that uses it once a day, theres no reason to use Servoy over FileMaker

Thanks for the responses guys. Fitch - thanks. Am I correct in thinking a XXX Mhz G4 iBook will be of similar speed to an identical speed G4 PowerBook, taking into account differences in RAM and graphics card? Roughly the same? stanley, thanks. I'll keep an older G3 in mind. Cashflow isnt great at the moment and the boss isnt too convinced I need a laptop, so if I get desperate I'll go with a G3 and see how I get along A more specific question: At home we use wireless ethernet. At work, 'wired' ethernet. Do all the laptops come with the necessary PC Card slot for a wireless adaptor? Do any of the laptops NOT come with an ethernet port? Many thanks Regards Chris

Hi there. Wow, that was a fast reply! Thanks :-) I'm used to a fairly fast Wintel machine, yes. Got an Athlon XP/512mb at home and work.. OK I'll see if I can get a G4 (if funds allow)! Many thanks Regards Chris

Hello everyone. This is my first post/thread. I actually signed up at FileMaker Dev Con last year. I'm beginning to get into FileMaker a little more, and hope to do more development work. I've reached a few conclusions: 1) I am beginning to need a laptop 2) I could do with a Mac as I want to develop more FM solutions for clients. Currently have no Mac machines, so I can't test solutions intended for the Mac environment. Makes sence to get a Mac laptop I think. I am planning to go solely for FM 7, since I have no major projects on the go and no major FM 6 solutions to support. AFAIK FM 7 does not run on OS 9, so I'm looking at OS X only, am I right? I have been advised that in order to get decent performance from OSX I really should go for a G4 machine. How accurate is this? Whats OSX like on a G3? It should be noted that uses include FileMaker development/testing and (some) Photoshop work. Are the 12" iBook and PowerBook screens OK? I'm not seriously considering one as I'd like as large a screen as I can get. Please excuse the influx of questions. I'm pretty lost. I dont mind buying second hand and would prefer to avoid buying new if at all possible ($$$). Many thanks for reading this far.