Re: [MacPerl] Filemaker Pro DB

["Axel Rose" <rose@sj.com>]

Hello Martijn,

the choices not considering AppleScript are:
1) ODBC
I haven't had enough time to investigate this further. Please look
around.
A sub question is whether the ODBC access is also possible from remote
machines.

2) text files
If you don't have to have online access you could easily export the
FMPro
data to a text file and work on this.

3) http
FMPro 5 can make its data available through http access.
Try to use the perl module LWP as http client.
A question here certainly is performance.

Please let us know if you have success.

OTH you may have to struggle with AppleScript or AppleEvents.
It's hard, I know, but is supported and quite fast.


Regards,
Axel


On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 13:35:19 +0200 martijn <martijn@vtip.nl> wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I am not sure this subject hasn't been spoken about yet, but i
> couldn't find
> it in the maillist. I was wondering if it was possible to create a
> Database
> in Filemaker Pro and be able to read it from macperl, even without
> Applescript (I hate that). I am working on DBI programming now,
> reading and
> writing my own databases.  It works very well, yet i still cannot
> read the
> DB in FMPro, which is almost absolutely necessary for me.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Martijn Houtman
>  
> 
> 
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