Scriptmaster on Windows 8

[brian rich]

I've just downloaded Scriptmaster onto my new laptop, running Windows 8, from the 360Works website.

 

When I launch the Scriptmaster.fp7 file in Filemaker 10 advanced, it complains that the plug-in is not installed and it wants to download it.  If I let it do that, then it tells me it isn't installed.  It shows on the plug-ins pane but is not configured; if I try and configure it, I get the message that Java 1.5 is not installed.on this computer.

 

I've tried converting the Scriptmaster.fp7 to an FP12 file, but get the same message when I go to open it in FP12.  Googling for the problem suggests that there is some issue with Metro and Java but I frankly have no idea what this means or how to solve it.

 

Is Scriptmaster usable in Windows 8?

 

Thanks

 

Brian

[ron G]

I feel your confusion and pain. 

My SM problem was that it WOULD work on my WIndows 7 machine but NOT on my OSX 10.8 machine. 

The problem suddenly arose, seemingly, after I upgraded Jave to Java 7.  I reinstalled, uninstalled, rolled back Java all to no avail.  I downloaded the 'current' SM plugin and put it in the Extensions folder... no change.  I put it in the 'Hiden Library....' folder... no change. 

 

Finally, I uninstalled Filemaker 12 and reinstalled and updated it to v 03.  Ba boom.  Everything was back to working....

 

Hope this helps.

[brian rich]

The issue with Windows 8 seems to be that Java doesn't work in the Metro interface but will work on the desktop.  I installed the latest version of Java into the Windows 8 desktop and now Scriptmaster does load and run correctly when I start FMP10 from the desktop.  I've not confirmed what happens with FMP12 yet, nor what this means in terms of working with Metro.

 

Brian