A colleague of mine was telling me about how FileMaker Pro can create apps for multiple platforms. From their website (http://www.filemaker.com/products/starter-solutions.html): "Manage tasks on iPad, iPhone, desktop, and the web"
Just wanted to poll the ProFox community on their thoughts on FileMaker Pro.
tia, --Mike
Mike, Used it a lot but there are runtime charges as it is definitely NOT a royalty free product like VFP.
The language itself is very quirky and lots of things are done in weird and wonderful ways. As for the multi platform then yes it does work but using a Filemaker server is almost compulsory to get any decent performance - and it's not cheap.
Personally I'd look at XOJO (Real Basic) as a multi platform development language as I think you'd find Filemaker quite prehistoric!
Dave
-----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com Sent: 01 August 2017 01:20 To: ProFox profox@leafe.com Subject: [NF] FileMaker Pro
A colleague of mine was telling me about how FileMaker Pro can create apps for multiple platforms. From their website (http://www.filemaker.com/products/starter-solutions.html): "Manage tasks on iPad, iPhone, desktop, and the web"
Just wanted to poll the ProFox community on their thoughts on FileMaker Pro.
tia, --Mike
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FileMaker Pro Advanced allows royalty free, cost more to purchase the Advanced version, still not as nice as VFP.
Bryant
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On Aug 1, 2017, at 5:06 AM, Dave Crozier DaveC@Flexipol.co.uk wrote:
Mike, Used it a lot but there are runtime charges as it is definitely NOT a royalty free product like VFP.
The language itself is very quirky and lots of things are done in weird and wonderful ways. As for the multi platform then yes it does work but using a Filemaker server is almost compulsory to get any decent performance - and it's not cheap.
Personally I'd look at XOJO (Real Basic) as a multi platform development language as I think you'd find Filemaker quite prehistoric!
Dave
-----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com Sent: 01 August 2017 01:20 To: ProFox profox@leafe.com Subject: [NF] FileMaker Pro
A colleague of mine was telling me about how FileMaker Pro can create apps for multiple platforms. From their website (http://www.filemaker.com/products/starter-solutions.html): "Manage tasks on iPad, iPhone, desktop, and the web"
Just wanted to poll the ProFox community on their thoughts on FileMaker Pro.
tia, --Mike
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On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 5:06 AM, Dave Crozier DaveC@flexipol.co.uk wrote:
Used it a lot but there are runtime charges as it is definitely NOT a royalty free product like VFP.
The language itself is very quirky and lots of things are done in weird and wonderful ways.
Now, are we still talking about VFP, or Filemaker Pro? <g>
On 2017-08-01 06:36, Ted Roche wrote:
On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 5:06 AM, Dave Crozier DaveC@flexipol.co.uk wrote:
Used it a lot but there are runtime charges as it is definitely NOT a royalty free product like VFP.
The language itself is very quirky and lots of things are done in weird and wonderful ways.
Now, are we still talking about VFP, or Filemaker Pro? <g>
LOL
On 2017-08-01 05:06, Dave Crozier wrote:
Mike, Used it a lot but there are runtime charges as it is definitely NOT a royalty free product like VFP.
The language itself is very quirky and lots of things are done in weird and wonderful ways. As for the multi platform then yes it does work but using a Filemaker server is almost compulsory to get any decent performance - and it's not cheap.
Personally I'd look at XOJO (Real Basic) as a multi platform development language as I think you'd find Filemaker quite prehistoric!
Agreed about looking at XOJO based on Kevin Cully's and others posts here about it.
I know a lot of FileMaker developers that are abandoning FM because of the outlandish licensing fees that FM/Apple are now charging.
Here's a blog post (from 2015) about looking for a new development platform and eventually returning to Xojo. http://timdietrich.me/blog/going-with-xojo/ Web, Windows, OS X, Linux, Raspberry Pi, iOS. Later this year, they'll have their first release with Android as a target.
-----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com Sent: Monday, July 31, 2017 8:20 PM To: ProFox Subject: [NF] FileMaker Pro
A colleague of mine was telling me about how FileMaker Pro can create apps for multiple platforms. From their website (http://www.filemaker.com/products/starter-solutions.html): "Manage tasks on iPad, iPhone, desktop, and the web"
Just wanted to poll the ProFox community on their thoughts on FileMaker Pro.
tia, --Mike
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