Re: Witango-Talk: WT Studio Crashes when Accessing some FileMaker Datasources

[Susan Brkich]

I have been having a similar problem, with WT Studio 5.5 workspace and FileMaker Pro files (not sure what version they were developed under, but they all open and run under 6.x now). I was trying to connect to your FileMaker datasources which were on another computer (our web server), from my Mac OS X machine running WT Studio 5.5., and I was getting the unexpected quit message, too. Since I'm new to Witango, I sent a message to someone at Witango who's been helping me with my newbie questions, and their support responded just this morning with the following:
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Susan,
The issue you are running into is that we do not support remote FileMaker
databases with Apple Events. You should be able to open a FileMaker Pro
client locally, have it connect to the remote database and then connect the
Witango Dev Studio datasource to the local FileMaker.

The only way to access FileMaker remotely is with the JDBC or ODBC driver.

Witango Support
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I think that I was trying to do it the way they suggest and it wasn't working, but now my trial version of 5.5. has run out, haven't had time to upgrade, and so I can't test it now.

But hopefully this provides some insight as to the problem, if not a solution.

Susan


On Nov 18, 2004, at 10:40 AM, Dave Lubovinsky wrote:

I posted an SOS about this issue back in the springtime and it was apparent from the replies that several others were having the same problem, but I have yet to see any real solutions, insight or fixes to it since.

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When opening "some" FileMaker 5.5 datasources in the WT Studio
5.0 workspace to get to the layouts and fields, Witango dev studio
unexpectedly quits. Somtimes it finally works after many tries,
but there are some cases where it just never works at all.
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Anyone know what's going on here??? Has Witango addressed this issue at all? I have no intention of upgrading to v5.5 unless and until this is resolved, because it remains to be a significant impediment when using WT 5 with FileMaker 5/6 on OSX.

Thanks.

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