Re: sorting/printing speed FMP9 vs. FMP6

On Tue, 6 May 2008 14:13:12 -0700 (PDT), d-42 wrote:
>  On May 6, 1:32 pm, Martin Trautmann <t-...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > On Tue, 6 May 2008 12:27:24 -0700 (PDT), d-42 wrote:
> > >  The point was that you could bypass the whole 'ascii-art at 1
point'
> > >  using the web browser control. I'm really not sure what tangent you
> > >  went down.
> >
> > I did not create any SVG by hand yet. I'm not that used to FMP 9 up to
> > now. I did not even try it within FMP 8.5. At the moment I'd expect
that
> > it is as useless as XML is. Are there any good demos around?
> 
>  Tons. But forget Filemaker. Its not really part of the equation.

Hm, you mentionned it - and I wondered how I might use FMP to build a
map as shown before.

>  I think you underestimate what can be done with SVG.
> 
>  http://www.croczilla.com/svg/samples/lion/screenshot.png

creator unknown

>  http://www.croczilla.com/svg/samples/butterfly/screenshot.png

Generated by Jasc WebDraw

>  http://www.croczilla.com/svg/samples/tiger/screenshot.png

creator unknown.

Where those images drawn or manipulated within FMP? SVG is just an
exchange format which I might manipulate. Most tools are the usual
vector graphic tools which are able to save/ex****t as SVG.

FMP offers an option to output text as SVG, but I do not see that many
graphing capabilites. Maybe there's a certain set of custom functions
anywhere which does draw pixels, lines, circles at certain locations. 
FMP should be able to im****t full libraries of custom functions, leaving
them in groups of their own, such as "svg", as there is "text" or
"time" now.

Do you know demos, where FMP built those graphics?
It's no magic to compose
<http://www.croczilla.com/svg/samples/circles2/text_view?obj=circles2.xml>
in order to build 
http://www.croczilla.com/svg/samples/circles2/screenshot.png
http://www.croczilla.com/svg/samples/circles2/circles2.xml

But I'd like to see applications where these infos are served from FMP,
as well as a screenshot how FMP as web browser does display this page.



Apart form that, you mentionned FMP to send URLs to other web severs. I
had this task recently: login, perform a search, catch the output,
extract certain data from it and do corrections. It was an anti-spam-bot
for an external wiki in order to revert spambot vandalism. It is a
typical application where regular expressions are most helpful to
extract certain text parts. That's why regular expressions are one of my
major wishes for goot database operations, never available in FMP up to
now. 

- Martin