Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Helpful Harry Newsgroups: comp.databases.filemaker Subject: Re: MacWorld.com: FileMaker 13 Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 09:36:19 +1300 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 49 Message-ID: <231220130936192326%HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> References: <101220131831598218%HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> <1ldxdnp.cxhfa8xtc96cN%yapu@invivo.edu> <221220131505184919%HelpfulHarry@BusyWorking.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: wQH6iYUu3wOSPZCmMMZg/A.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:1621 In article , Martin Ԥrautmann 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)