Recreating a binary stack from xml text

[Bob Sneidar]

One of the things that frustrated me with Filemaker is that references to tables were constants. You could not by script save the name of a table in a variable, and then reference the table by name. At the time it was essential to me to be able to do that, so I could set some environment variables at the outset depending on the company being edited, and have my code access the set of tables via their variable names. 

Also, while a graphical "code" editor may seem like a good idea at first, in practice it turns out to be quite a slow way of doing things.  

Bob

On Feb 20, 2012, at 10:54 PM, Geoff Canyon Rev wrote:

> I'm looking at the docs for Eclipse and I see "safe rename." Is that what
> you're talking about? Out of curiosity does it mean that when you rename
> something, it goes through all your source files looking for references to
> that thing, and changes them?
> 
> I understand that this is nitpicking, but I think FileMaker does something
> more robust. At least I think it does, I could be wrong. When FileMaker
> stores your script, it stores within it any references to tables, columns,
> scripts, etc., by some underlying id, not by name. Then, when it is time to
> display the script to you in the editor, it re-constitutes the names at
> that point. In any case, there is only the one tool for renaming things,
> and it always does the right thing.