Each one brings different information about the museum from the Web into the database, but the Tab Control lets users see exactly what they want quickly, without having to poke around in a Web browser to find it. This database uses a Tab Control to provide quick access to a number of Web Viewers. Based on my real-world tests, FileMaker 8.5 did even better than that-sometimes much better. FileMaker’s publicity materials say version 8.5 is up to two times faster than FileMaker Pro 8 on a PowerPC.
Is one of the marquee Mac apps for Mac OS X to be released inįormat-that is, an application that has been optimized for the new Intel Core Duo-based Macs as well as the older PowerPC Macs. I looked at the Pro version for this review. FileMaker 8.5 comes in a Pro version (primarily for database users) and a Pro Advanced version (targeted to developers).
FileMaker Pro 8.5 offers significant advantages that aren’t going to break your old databases or send you back to school. For those fatigued from the challenges posed by previous FileMaker upgrades, there’s good news. ) added much more powerful programming capabilities for developers, but experienced developers who knew the old versions well had to work hard to adjust to a new interface. ) introduced a new file structure that made great things possible, but which caused many older databases to break, sometimes badly, when they were converted. Progress can be painful, as anybody who has lived through the last couple of major upgrades to FileMaker Pro can attest.