| Reading FileMaker Pro files? [message #13553] |
Wed, 18 November 1998 00:00  |
Eric Frans
Messages: 13
Registered: October 1998
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IDL people,
Well I've got another question for today. :) I just got a request from
someone to see if it's possible for IDL to read in files created using
FileMaker Pro (a relational database program designed by Claris). After
poking around the IDL 5.1 documentation it doesn't look possible, so I
thought I'd check here to see if anyone has coded up something to do
this.
Thanks in advance for any help!
- Eric Frans
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| Re: Reading FileMaker Pro files? [message #13634 is a reply to message #13553] |
Sat, 21 November 1998 00:00  |
mgs
Messages: 144
Registered: March 1995
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Senior Member |
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In article <3655D923.D951161E@egi.com>, Michael Hartman <mhartman@egi.com>
wrote:
> If you are running IDL on a PowerMac you can use the IDL Do_Apple_Script
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> Eric Frans wrote:
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>> IDL people,
>>
>> Well I've got another question for today. :) I just got a request from
>> someone to see if it's possible for IDL to read in files created using
>> FileMaker Pro (a relational database program designed by Claris). After
>> poking around the IDL 5.1 documentation it doesn't look possible, so I
>> thought I'd check here to see if anyone has coded up something to do
>> this.
I don't know if FileMaker is a supported program for RSI's DataMiner, but
the latest version of FileMaker apparently handles ODBC calls. It might be
worth bugging RSI about to see if DataMiner can talk to it.
--
Mike Schienle Interactive Visuals, LLC
mgs@ivsoftware.com http://www.ivsoftware.com/
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| Re: Reading FileMaker Pro files? [message #13645 is a reply to message #13553] |
Fri, 20 November 1998 00:00 |
Michael Hartman
Messages: 2
Registered: November 1998
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Junior Member |
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If you are running IDL on a PowerMac you can use the IDL Do_Apple_Script
command to send requests to a FileMaker Pro database for data. You can,
from inside an IDL procedure, send search strings to the database, and the
data returned to the IDL application will be filtered according to your
search criteria.
You can always export data, filtered or not, from FileMaker Pro to a
generic text file. Then you can have IDL read the text file and bring the
data in. You may have to endure a little overhead, to convert strings to
numerics and vice versa.
Eric Frans wrote:
> IDL people,
>
> Well I've got another question for today. :) I just got a request from
> someone to see if it's possible for IDL to read in files created using
> FileMaker Pro (a relational database program designed by Claris). After
> poking around the IDL 5.1 documentation it doesn't look possible, so I
> thought I'd check here to see if anyone has coded up something to do
> this.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help!
>
> - Eric Frans
--
Michael Hartman
Electrical Geodesics INC
www.egi.com
PH: 541-687-7962
FX: 541-687-7963
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