I'm interested in creating my own plug-ins for FileMaker but I only have FileMaker Pro 5.5 and not the Developers Edition. Am I out of luck or is there a way for me to still create anything.

Take a look at www.filemaker.com/products/plugin_developer_faq.html for information on developing plug-ins. The Developer's Edition does contain resources for creating a plug-in. You will, however, also need resources such as CodeWarrior (mac) and an equivalent PC resource to perform the programming required for this task.

I would first make sure that the plug-in you need does not already exist (usless your primary interest is to create a product).

-bd

Thanks for you reply...

Already looked at that and the only thing interesting there was that FileMaker Developer contained the API needed to create the plug-ins.

All I have is FileMaker Pro and am trying to figure out if I can still create my own plug-ins (i.e. get the API since I don't have it and if FileMaker Pro can even use plug-ins since I'm not sure if its a "Developers Edition" only feature.)

With regards to finding the plug-ins, I have found others but am not interested in paying for them. Another factor in my decision is that I'm a co-op student so creating my own plug-ins would be an interesting experience (I have experience with Java and am just beginning to learn C++)

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You need the developer version to create plug-ins, but not to use them. The developer version contains a number of files that are necessary to compile a plug-in which aren't available (legally!) elsewhere. Once you've made a plug-in, you can use it with the "regular" FileMaker Pro.

[ November 26, 2001: Message edited by: Mouken ]

"The developer version contains a number of files that are necessary to compile a plug-in"

which are these and how do I compile my plug-in?

please help me!!!

Version: Developer v6

Platform: Windows XP

With Windows XP, you should use MS Visual Studio C++ 6.0. With this, you can open the sample plug-in that is included and compile it to a plug-in. The plug-in is just a DLL that has the extension .fmx.

From there, you can see how the plug-in is constructed and alter it to do what you want.