Vincenzo Menanno of Beezwax
FileMaker Plugin Developer: Beezwax Number of Plugins: 2 FileMaker Plugins Vincenzo Menanno is Director of FileMaker Development at Beezwax. When did you first start using FileMaker? Oh boy… I can’t even remember – it must have been around 1986. What made you start making FileMaker Plugins? There were things that I wanted to do with [...]
Bogdan Boon of Dacons
FileMaker Plugin Developer: Dacons Number of Plugins: 5 FileMaker Plugins Bogdan Boon is Head of Programmers Department at Dacons When did you first start using FileMaker? In 1997. What made you start making FileMaker Plugins? FileMaker 4 introduced the first plug-ins interface, which allowed to extend the database facilities. Do you use any plugins created [...]
Jeff Hough of Sitecraft
FileMaker Plugin Developer: Sitecraft Number of Plugins: 1 FileMaker Plugin Jeff Hough is the owner of Sitecraft. When did you first start using FileMaker? After I graduated from college. (1990) I was hire to build an event scheduling solution using FileMaker II (not FileMaker Pro 2). What made you start making FileMaker Plugins? I wanted [...]
Mike Faulkner of Sky Dancer Studios
FileMaker Plugin Developer: Sky Dancer Studios Number of Plugins: 2 FileMaker Plugins Mike Faulkner is Chief Software Artist, Telephone Answerer and Head Janitor at Sky Dancer Studios. When did you first start using FileMaker? When version 1.0 came out back in the 1980′s! What made you start making FileMaker Plugins? When I needed functions that [...]
Tony Kargas of Kargas Software
FileMaker Plugin Developer: Kargas Software Number of Plugins: 4 FileMaker Plugins When did you first start using FileMaker? I started using Filemaker in 1999 with FileMaker Pro v4 What made you start making FileMaker Plugins? We were using the Troi Dialog Plugin for all our solutions. However, after using it for years we had a [...]
Jason Erickson of WorldSync
FileMaker Plugin Developer: WorldSync Number of Plugins: 1 FileMaker Plugin Jason Erickson is the founder of WorldSync. When did you first start using FileMaker? I think it was about 1995. FileMaker was in version 2.1 and about a year into it I was just about to look for a new platform that had relational capabilities [...]
Plugin API History
What changes between each version of the FileMaker Plugin SDK. The FMWrapper Framework is only on its second major version, which came out with FileMaker Pro 8, and has only seen a few minor modifications since then. FileMaker 8 New BinaryData::GetFNAMData BinaryData::AddFNAMData BinaryData::GetSIZEData BinaryData::AddSIZEData ExprEnv::ExecuteSQL Data::GetFontID Data::GetFontInfo CharacterStyle::FontScript k80ExtnVersion Changed kCurrentExtnVersion Updated to 51 Values [...]
Chris Dragon of Dracoventions
FileMaker Plugin Developer: Dracoventions Number of Plugins: 1 FileMaker Plugin When did you first start using FileMaker? About five years ago. What made you start making FileMaker Plugins? I thought the existing plugins cost too much and I’ve always liked being able to customize and add features to the software I use every day. Do [...]
Stefan Husch of Qutic Development
FileMaker Plugin Developer: Qutic Development Number of Plugins: 6 FileMaker Plugins When did you first start using FileMaker? Back in 1993 with FileMaker 1 on a MacIntosh Color Classic. What made you start making FileMaker Plugins? In 2003 we started with plug-in development for a product called iptcBatch, an innovative caption writer software for photographers. [...]
Tomas Rycl of 24U Software
FileMaker Plugin Developer: 24U Software Number of Plugins: 11 FileMaker Plugins Tomas Rycl is Chief Plugin Developer at 24U Software. When did you first start using FileMaker? Four years ago when I started with plugin development. What made you start making FileMaker Plugins? I programmed in C on university and my colleague Ondra Chaloupka contacted [...]