Beezwax Announces InspectorPro 4 for FileMaker 12 Leading Developer Tool Now Up To 10x Faster, Provides Deeper Analysis for FileMaker 12 Databases MIAMI, Fla. – July 16, 2012 – Beezwax Datatools, Inc. today announced InspectorPro 4, a major new version of the leading developer tool for FileMaker 12 database analysis. Rewritten from the ground up […]

I needed to investigate why a script was being run, and I was pretty sure cron was launching it. The problem was, little useful information was being logged, and no one was sure how it had been set up or what user it was under. Although launchd is now the preferred mechanism on Mac OS […]

How the Self function can give you a label’s text.

Can you call the Mac OS X Cocoa API from a FileMaker script? Yes, you can…but not directly. This example shows how to call the PDFDocument class to query a file’s attributes and then write out a modified version.

Here’s a free AppleScript to get a FileMaker object "any object" off the clipboard as text. See how FileMaker really describes its objects!

Here’s how to incorporate virtually any UI control you see on the web directly into your FileMaker 12 Pro — and FileMaker Go —  layouts.

The FileMaker 12 product line is here! Keep reading to see what we think the most exciting new possibilities are with the new versions of FileMaker Pro, FileMaker Server and FileMaker Go.

Instructions and file for setting up a basic JDBC connection from Java code

Can you handle 99 bottles of beer… in your favorite programming language? Here’s a fun little challenge to stir your technical and creative juices. Over 1437 variations and counting, including this version in FileMaker. How would you do it?

I began using FileMaker at the spry old age of FileMaker Pro 8, so I’ve never been through the trenches of using repeating fields to accomplish what can now be done with portals. However, repeating fields still have a variety of uses, and I’m happy to have them in my toolkit. When I’m working with a repeating field, there are several questions I might ask of it, depending on the task at hand.

Use portal filters to help the Bard select his favorite grandchildren. An adventure in FileMaker sorting!