Analyzer 3 / FMD 5.5- How Good Together?

[Moon]

This is addressed to CaptKurt, and anyone else who may have worked with Waves In Motion's Analyzer 3 and FileMaker Devloper 5.5. Another thread got exercised heavily in the pros and cons of FMD 5.5 upgrade, and I am not asking to re-open that discussion. Rather, I would like anyone with experience using the new Analyzer 3 to give a review of it. Because Analyzer 3 requires FMD 5.5, I would prefer to hear about Analyzer 3 only. If it is as good as it is purported to be by WIM, a purchase of FMD and Analyzer would be worthwhile. If it is not, I would eschew purchase of either, as version 5.0 of Developer suits me fine. (Gee, I have always wanted to use "eschew" in a sentence.)

Specifically, here are questions that I have in determining whether to invest in the two products or not.

How reliable is Analayzer? I have been disappointed in version 2 and its finicky compatability with extensions

[Kurt Knippel]

** DIG.FM Meeting Reminder **

Date: 17 October, Wednesday

Time: 6:30 p.m. social, 7:00 p.m. meeting to 9:30 p..m.

Place: FileMaker Inc, 5201 Patrick Henry Dr., Santa Clara..

Topic: Analyzer 3.0

Speaker: Vince Menanno, Waves in Motion

Vince Menanno, President of Waves in Motion, will be presenting Analyzer

3.0, a comprehensive system for documenting and debugging FileMaker Pro

databases. Completely rewritten to take advantage of the new Database

Design Report in FileMaker Developer 5.5, Analyzer 3.0 allows developers

to pinpoint common database and document entire solutions. A free copy

of Analyzer will be given away at the meeting.

[Moon]

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Originally posted by CaptKurt:

** DIG.FM Meeting Reminder **

Date: 17 October, Wednesday

Time: 6:30 p.m. social, 7:00 p.m. meeting to 9:30 p..m.

Place: FileMaker Inc, 5201 Patrick Henry Dr., Santa Clara..

Topic: Analyzer 3.0

Speaker: Vince Menanno, Waves in Motion

Vince Menanno, President of Waves in Motion, will be presenting Analyzer

3.0, a comprehensive system for documenting and debugging FileMaker Pro

databases. Completely rewritten to take advantage of the new Database

Design Report in FileMaker Developer 5.5, Analyzer 3.0 allows developers

to pinpoint common database and document entire solutions. A free copy

of Analyzer will be given away at the meeting.

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Kurt, what is DIG.FM? Is the meeting open to the public/non-members? If so, it is worth a drive down to Santa Clara for me to see it for myself.

Moon

[ October 17, 2001: Message edited by: Moon Mullins ]

[Kurt Knippel]

It is a Filemaker developers user group. I am not exactly sure on membership criteria, but the meetings are open to the public. Although there is possibly a charge for non-members.

Check http://www.digfm.org/ for more information about the organization.

[Moon]

Thanks for the tip, Kurt. I will try to make the meeting.

I still welcome user experiences and feedback on Analyzer 3.