AppleScript - Silent Running?

[Geoff Canyon]

Sorry about the mislead on XML -- my FileMaker Pro experience with  
7/8 is only just starting. You could do it with FileMaker 5.5 ;-)

On Sep 20, 2005, at 11:50 AM, Peter Reid wrote:

> Er, what's "not true" - that you're forced to see FM Pro do its  
> stuff when using AppleScript or that you need "activate" at the  
> start of each script?  I'm happy to believe the latter isn't  
> required, but I don't think it helps since if this is left out I  
> still see FM Pro screens flashing away.  However, I'm fairly  
> convinced of the former!

I didn't make the suggestion, but even so --

What happens if you start your script with:

tell application "FileMaker Pro"
   hide