I'm probably misunderstanding something here, but as long as you're not selling 
your app via the Mac App Store I though sandboxing isn't going to affect your 
app's ability to run AppleScript?

Ian


On 6 Aug 2013, at 23:55, Jim Hurley <jhurley0...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Election season is fact approaching in my county. I do a lot of election DB 
> work.
> 
> One thing I have long relied on was the ability to extract data stored 
> Filemaker and put it into a LC stack, (where the scripting language is not 
> idiotic.)
> 
> I have done  this with something like this (below) executed as Apple Script:
> 
> set theDatabase to choose file with prompt "Please locate a FileMaker Pro 
> database file to open:"
> tell application "FileMaker Pro"
>    with transaction
>        try
>            open theDatabase
>            go to layout "list"
>            get every record of layout "list"
>        end try
>    end transaction
> end tell
> 
> It was slow but it worked.
> 
> With Apple script gone, will there remain a way to script in LC a way to 
> extract  info from FM?
> 
> Please tell me this is a naive question, and the answer is easy.
> 
> Jim Hurley
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