Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Helpful Harry Newsgroups: comp.databases.filemaker Subject: Re: MacWorld.com: FileMaker 13 Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2013 15:05:18 +1300 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 29 Message-ID: <221220131505184919%HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> References: <101220131831598218%HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> <1ldxdnp.cxhfa8xtc96cN%yapu@invivo.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: fX+F8C+LzMOkYhb8omNuZA.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Thoth/1.5.4 (Carbon/OS X) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.databases.filemaker:1617 In article , Martin Ԥrautmann wrote: > > Yes, but I want to see the same things within the FMP program directly - > and I'd like some basic graphics libraries. There's already a ton of graphics available on the Internet. :o) Besides, have you looked at FileMaker's own example databases?? Most of the that I've seen are incredibly ugly (not to mention buggy), so the last thing we need is FileMaker Inc.'s idea of graphics. > FMP is that much into graphical interfaces, where I'd welcome a direct > edit capability as text. I don't really see a point. It is a database applciation, so if you want to draw pretty graphics you should be using a graphics application. Once you start tacking in all these extra features, software quickly becomes over-bloated. I can perhaps see some point in things like "mouse over" changes to button states or similar, but even then databases get too busy and complicated looking. It's best to keep things relatively simple (especially if you trying to pass all that imagery over an internet connection where people may be on slow, dodgey, or data capped plans). Helpful Harry :o)