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  1. The hours I've spent creating several layouts almost exactly the same except for a changing tab control and a few fields. Wouldn't it be great if you could simply drop a tab control onto a layout - add tabs to it - and tell it what layout should be displayed within the control for each tab! There could even be sciptable events like there is in delphi's TTabControl for OnChanging and OnChanged - thatis when the user is changing tabs or has changed. Actually the events would go a long way in other places in FM too - having "specify button" simply isn't enough. OnEnter, OnExit and OnChange events would enable you to fire a script as the user enters a field textbox, exits it, or changes the field contents! Most of all, I wish the plugin SDK came with a Delphi / Pascal translation!
  2. Since my last posting here, I've managed to compile one of the examples from 24U using the CodeWarrior Trial. At the moment I only have developer 7 but need to develop for FM6 also. Just waiting on the disk now to try the D6 template. -)
  3. (Still fairly new to filemaker, but to the best of my knowledge...) This IMHO is a major failing of filemaker. There is no 'OnExit' event triggering. However in filemaker 7 plugins have been given the ability to run scripts meaning that a calculation field (that must validate on exit) could call the plugin from its validation. Its a quirky work around and only available in Filemaker 7 as far as I'm aware. In my own projects I've setup scripted buttons for both entry and exit of a layout and done my own validation in these events.
  4. Request :-) I've been discussing my problems in a coding irc channel. Would it be possible for one of you borland c++ coders to create an obj or two that I can link with my delphi apps? It needn't be anything too complicated, just a function to setup some callbacks. I'd prefer Filemaker 5.5 compatable at this time. Thanks in advance for any helps given.
  5. Hi, I'm trying to create a filemaker plugin for the first time. I've copied cpp_example, FMAPI, and FMTemplate from the Developer 7 disk and created a new DLL project in VC++ 6, then added the FMPluginHandlers.cpp file and compiled. I rename the resulting DLL file to plugin.fmx and place it in the extensions directory. Problem is, when I start filemaker I don't see the plugin :-( It doesn't help that my c++ skills are very weak making c++ oriented documentation difficult to follow. Can someone please tell me where I'm going wrong? Also, has anyone seen, heard of, or is capable of making delphi translations of the c++ plugin headers? I tryed compiling the headers to an .obj and linking them with delphi but it seems VC++ format object files aren't compatable with borland compilers. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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