FileMaker as Rapid Development Environment

One of the things I always like about FileMaker is how you can quickly you develop new features. It’s surely the fastest application development environment going around these days. For the last week, all of my development time has been in BaseElements, fixing a...

BaseElements 3.0.1 Released

I’ve just posted a .1 release for BaseElements 3. There are a bunch of the usual fixes in this version to various UI and data issues. Full details are on the Version History page. There are two notable changes though. Firstly, I’m url encoding the...

Detecting maximised windows in FileMaker

I had a feature request for BaseElements that to me sound perfectly reasonable : When you’re creating a new window by holding down the option key, can you put it a few pixels below and to the left of the current window in the exact same way the “New...

Back from DevCon

I’ve arrived back from San Diego after our 15 day flight direct into Melbourne. Sorry did I say 15 day, I meant 15 hour flight. Although it does seem like that at times. We had a great conference, it was very successful for us in terms of getting BaseElements...

BaseElements 3 Released

Late last night I uploaded BaseElements 3.0.0. With no b, fc, x, y or z in the version number this makes it a final release. Since the last fc release I’ve incremented the plugin to fix a variable detection issue, updated a bunch of bits and pieces related to...

BaseElements 3 Final Candidate 2

I’ve got another small update to the fc1 version of BaseElements 3. This one has some minor fixes : A layout fix for the size of the main analysis layout. A fix for the privilege set that does access to files when importing multiple reports. A change to the...

BaseElements 3 Final Candidate

Another day, another BaseElements release. This time is special though, it will certainly be the last for a few days, as I fly out to San Diego tomorrow for DevCon. I’m really looking forward to it this year it should be a good show. And finally I have no...

BaseElements 3 beta 10 and new UI

I’ve uploaded BaseElements 3 beta 10. Download links : BaseElements_Mac.dmg – fp7 files. BaseElements_Mac_Runtime.dmg – Runtime. BaseElements_Win.zip – fp7 files. BaseElements_Win_Runtime.zip – Runtime. I was going to do a little more...

BaseElements 2.6.8 Update

I’ve just finished uploading a minor update to BaseElements 2 to bring it to 2.6.8. Only a couple of small changes in this version : * Update the registration code to accept BE v3 licences. * Updated the file plugin to include Troi File 5.0. * Updated the dialog...