We’ve had a customer from Myanmar for 7 years. Although their Internet has improved, initially it was run by the mafia and consisted of a few external addresses with NAT, upon NAT, upon NAT underneath it.
It was our biggest challenge to optimise our systems to accommodate their frequent connection breaks and a routing table nightmare.
However, even now in the UK, we have people with broadband connections here that would struggle to beat a modem connection.
We recently had our systems tested from China and the connection was so bad, that even our system designed for low bandwidth use were not viable.
I think most of the designers in the west coast of the US also believe everyone has at least 100Mbs connections and that everyone is Internet connected, which of course is far from the truth.
Even if it is not specifically a scripting mistake (based on the tag for this topic) something I come across every now & then is a problem that manifests itself because the layout is still on the ‘classic’ theme.
Doing replace field contents? OK. Replace Field has so many potentially negative ramifications, especially with the associated performance hit, that you must have some reason for doing that.
I don’t agree with the general point at all. We never could disregard the user environment unless we delivered to small LAN networks.
And if you are making bulk changes to large datasets then (as fmpdude is happy to tell us) FMP/FMS isn’t the only tool in the shed.
Not yet.
I’ve had that since months - and always thought that an older file with locale settings was the reason. Today, I had to dive in because of changes for the next ISO certification - and realized that
Since v15 will be out of support in september, I will check that out with newer fm versions first
Curious. I have a customer where a single user, using a Lenovo PC/Laptop with touchscreen, experiences FMPA switching to English keyboard each time a text field is entered. The system is set to Swiss German, including keyboard.
Markus, are you using Remote Desktop for Mac v10? Does this also happen if you log into the file using RDP on Windows? Or from within FileMaker on Windows directly?
The reason I ask, is that we have had to create a customised Windows keyboard on our RDP servers, as full keyboard mapping isn’t available within RD for Mac as yet (it is on the Microsoft Mac team’s development plan). Even with the customised keyboard, we can’t get a full UK Mac keyboard map to the Windows keyboard, but it is close enough.
I wonder whether this is an RDP thing and not a FileMaker issue?
As for the file: I created a brandnew, vanilla, local file with only 2 fields… same effect
Maybe I can get a laptop with local resources and check that out
We got a superbe system here: If one buys a new MacBook or desktop machine, the old system can be sold via the vendor. Prices are quite good. (not via Apple)
All fine - but that’s the reason that I’m out in the fields without a machine other than the iPad. Means: No local testing at the moment…
When I get my new MacBook, I will check it out with virtual machines
did a test with a laptop, physical machine
Windows 8.1
FileMaker Pro Advanced 15.01 (is an old ‘spare’ laptop, got no other device here)
SwissGerman os and keyboard
New file, 2 fields, text
in layout: One normal textfield, one as textfield with bullets
-> when tabing to field 2, language changes to ENG
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