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.

It comes up fairly frequently for me that I need the path to a file I have selected in the Finder. With some futzing, you can already do this. Some techniques are

• drag file to Terminal window
• copy path from Get Info dialog
• drag file to TextEdit window

But I was hoping for something a little better.

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.

Example of AppleScript code to handle all the vagaries of opening a remote FileMaker database.