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Re: FileMaker Archaeology

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On Tue, 15 Dec 2015 17:14:54 -0500, nospam wrote:
>  <http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/users/bob/clarisworks.php>
>    Meanwhile, Apple had formed a software subsidiary, named Claris, to
>    develop and market application software. Initially Claris sold
>    MacWrite, MacPaint, and MacDraw, for the Macintosh, and AppleWorks,

offtopic, but MacDraw was such an excellent application. I am so sorry
that there has been that little progress in improving drawing
applications since - especially looking at the lack of proper drawing
capabilites within MS Word, Libe/Openoffice etc.

The proper concepts of aligning, grouping, moving were just so natural
and obvious to use. And copy/paste to other documents, or scaling where
excellent that time. I even could take a ruler on the screen of my
Mac Classic, up to the Powerbook 190 (which I liked more than the
5something), in order to measure and position anything.

Same was true that time for FMP.

Is there anything as good by current standards, as MacDraw was that
time? I'd vote for Sketchup - which is a perfectly different, but
excellent to use 3D app. But I don't know any for Mac (knowing not much
more than e.g. Intaglio, just wondering why 2.9.4 still works with
10.10, but 3.1 doesn't).

FMP evolved a lot since, too. The concept of relations was one of the
most significant real improvements. But whatever came since was useful
many times, but not such a major thing as I feel since my experience of
FileMaker II and its great usefulness.
For my daily data work I still expect most a proper spreadsheet like
operation for multi cell copy/paste and a (scriptable?) option to toggle
instant resort, which is somehow useful, but on data massage a
pain-in-the-ass many times.

I don't like the direction FMP is moving towards nowadays. It still
lacks major drawing capabilites (now speaking of MacDraw again?), of
more powerful chart functions - or a proper data input handling, with
full tracking which field was entered when from what to what, offering
the option to undo certain of the modifications. 

The "replace" operation is one of the most powerful options, but
it's still one of the most dangerous things, too, to lose your data. And
the replace operation still lacks a kind of history management, as e.g.
TextWrangler does for search/replace

- Martin

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FileMaker Archaeology Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2015-12-14 14:00 -0500
  Re: FileMaker Archaeology Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-12-14 19:23 +0000
    Re: FileMaker Archaeology android <here@there.was> - 2015-12-14 20:42 +0100
    Re: FileMaker Archaeology ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2015-12-14 21:06 +0100
      Re: FileMaker Archaeology dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-12-15 11:28 +1300
        Re: FileMaker Archaeology ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2015-12-15 02:19 +0100
          Re: FileMaker Archaeology dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-12-15 15:15 +1300
  Re: FileMaker Archaeology JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-12-14 15:02 -0500
  Re: FileMaker Archaeology Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-12-15 00:51 +0000
    Re: FileMaker Archaeology nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-12-14 20:05 -0500
      Re: FileMaker Archaeology Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-12-15 04:23 +0000
        Re: FileMaker Archaeology nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-12-14 23:45 -0500
          Re: FileMaker Archaeology Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-12-15 15:18 +0000
            Re: FileMaker Archaeology nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-12-15 10:59 -0500
              Re: FileMaker Archaeology Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-12-15 18:32 +0000
                Re: FileMaker Archaeology nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-12-15 16:32 -0500
                Re: FileMaker Archaeology dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-12-16 11:07 +1300
                Re: FileMaker Archaeology nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-12-15 17:14 -0500
                Re: FileMaker Archaeology Martin Τrautmann <t-usenet@gmx.net> - 2015-12-16 08:09 +0000
                Re: FileMaker Archaeology Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-12-17 13:59 +1300
                Re: FileMaker Archaeology Martin Τrautmann <t-usenet@gmx.net> - 2015-12-17 02:51 +0000
                Re: FileMaker Archaeology Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-12-16 13:30 +0000
                Re: FileMaker Archaeology Alan Baker <alangbaker@telus.net> - 2015-12-15 13:35 -0800
                Re: FileMaker Archaeology Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-12-16 13:05 +1300
        Re: FileMaker Archaeology dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-12-15 17:52 +1300
          Re: FileMaker Archaeology dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-12-15 18:48 +1300
        Re: FileMaker Archaeology Alan Baker <alangbaker@telus.net> - 2015-12-14 21:49 -0800
  Re: FileMaker Archaeology Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2015-12-15 13:18 -0500
  Re: FileMaker Archaeology Paul Magnussen <magiconinc@earthlink.net> - 2015-12-15 11:38 -0800
    Re: FileMaker Archaeology Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-12-16 13:14 +1300
      Re: FileMaker Archaeology Andreas Rutishauser <andreas@macandreas.ch> - 2015-12-16 06:20 +0100
        Re: FileMaker Archaeology Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-12-16 19:20 +1300
    Re: FileMaker Archaeology Nelson <nelson@nowhere.com> - 2015-12-16 07:48 -0500

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