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In article <slrnlbd2od.1v90.t-usenet@ID-685.user.individual.de>, Martin
Ԥrautmann <t-usenet@gmx.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 22 Dec 2013 15:05:18 +1300, Helpful Harry wrote:
> >  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'd like some visualisation - not only Excel charts, but at least
> something like that.
> 
> Two examples where I built FMP solutions with pixel graphics:

I do see simple graphs being handy. If you want complex graphs, then a
proper graphic application or Excel is better idea, afterall, FileMaker
is a database application, not a statistical / mathematical analysis
package. From memory newer versions of Filemaker do now having graphic
abilities. I wasn't really thinking of those as "graphics" though.




> Another example: a database of locations where you want to show these
> locations on a map. 
> 
> Of course you could use google maps much better here. But for a somple
> overview within the border line of my country I built an internal
> solution.

You can probably do that with a static JPEG / TIFF map and a set of X-Y
co-ordinates fairly "easily". Given the scale, it would never be
accurate anyway, altough I guess if you wanted to be really silly you
could do zooming, etc.




> "pixel graphics", that meens 1 point font size and graphics built from
> letter text. This worked until FMP 7. But since the broken font
> rendering of FMP7 was fixed, they defixed the proper display of 1 point
> sized. 

I haven't tried it, but it would make more sense to use 1-pixel
Container fields instead of Text fields, and that should then work in
any version of Filemaker.


Helkpful Harry   :o)

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MacWorld.com: FileMaker 13 Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> - 2013-12-10 18:31 +1300
  Re: MacWorld.com: FileMaker 13 Howard Schlossberg <howard@nospam.fmprosolutions.com> - 2013-12-09 22:46 -0800
  Re: MacWorld.com: FileMaker 13 Martin Τrautmann <t-usenet@gmx.net> - 2013-12-10 06:50 +0000
    Re: MacWorld.com: FileMaker 13 jclewis43@gmail.com - 2013-12-10 04:57 -0800
      Re: MacWorld.com: FileMaker 13 Howard Schlossberg <howard@nospam.fmprosolutions.com> - 2013-12-10 11:58 -0800
        Re: MacWorld.com: FileMaker 13 Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> - 2013-12-11 09:40 +1300
    Re: MacWorld.com: FileMaker 13 yapu@invivo.edu (Philippe Manet) - 2013-12-15 16:11 +0100
      Re: MacWorld.com: FileMaker 13 Martin Τrautmann <t-usenet@gmx.net> - 2013-12-15 16:19 +0000
        Re: MacWorld.com: FileMaker 13 yapu@invivo.edu (Philippe Manet) - 2013-12-22 01:53 +0100
        Re: MacWorld.com: FileMaker 13 Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> - 2013-12-22 15:05 +1300
          Re: MacWorld.com: FileMaker 13 Martin Τrautmann <t-usenet@gmx.net> - 2013-12-22 06:47 +0000
            Re: MacWorld.com: FileMaker 13 Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> - 2013-12-23 09:36 +1300
              Re: MacWorld.com: FileMaker 13 Martin Τrautmann <t-usenet@gmx.net> - 2013-12-22 22:00 +0000
                Re: MacWorld.com: FileMaker 13 Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> - 2013-12-23 16:25 +1300
                Re: MacWorld.com: FileMaker 13 Martin Τrautmann <t-usenet@gmx.net> - 2013-12-23 13:03 +0000
                Re: MacWorld.com: FileMaker 13 Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> - 2013-12-24 18:30 +1300
                Re: MacWorld.com: FileMaker 13 Martin Τrautmann <t-usenet@gmx.net> - 2013-12-24 07:05 +0000
                Re: MacWorld.com: FileMaker 13 Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> - 2013-12-25 08:52 +1300
                Re: MacWorld.com: FileMaker 13 dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2013-12-25 13:05 +1300
                Re: MacWorld.com: FileMaker 13 Helpful Harry <HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> - 2013-12-25 13:52 +1300
                Re: MacWorld.com: FileMaker 13 dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2013-12-25 14:26 +1300
                Re: MacWorld.com: FileMaker 13 Howard Schlossberg <howard@nospam.fmprosolutions.com> - 2013-12-22 22:00 -0800

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