[FX.php List] TIP: optimize Macintosh Filemaker Pro for web serving

[Dale Bengston]

If your database are visible, displaying a blank layout (no fields at 
all, no status area, etc.) also helps. This also helps keep your 
databases from "casual" prying eyes if your server happens to in an 
non-secure location. This does not mean I'm recommending it as any sort 
of security method.

Dale
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Dale Bengston | Streamline Studio, LLC | dbengston at streamline-studio.com
Associate Member, FileMaker Solutions Alliance

On Jan 10, 2005, at 2:47 PM, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen wrote:

> This is for FileMaker 5.0 - 6.0 right?
>
> Then even hiding windows for each file helps alot too.
>
> Gjermund
>
> On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 10:14:15 -0500, DC <dan.cynosure at dbmscan.com> 
> wrote:
>> I noticed that my Apple G5 processor benefits (several percentage 
>> points
>> of CPU usage as reported by top -au) when filemaker pro is hidden.
>>
>> So, I wrote a little applescript/osascript to be a cron job and grab
>> that little piece of processor back (but only if the screensaver is 
>> on):
>>
>> osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to set process_flag to
>> (exists process "ScreenSaverEngine")' -e 'if process_flag then tell
>> application "System Events" to set visible of process "Filemaker Pro" 
>> to
>> false'
>>
>> paste this into a text editor and take out the word wraps and such 
>> that
>> the email clients put in. then drop it into the crontab (i use cronnix
>> but cronnix doesn't seem to support @reboot crontab entry) of the user
>> who runs your filemaker install and set it to recur every hour or so 
>> or
>> maybe just once a day or on reboot (depending on how often filemaker
>> becomes unhidden).
>>
>> You could probably adapt this to any processor hoggin' app on your Mac
>> system.
>>
>> enjoy.
>> dan
>>
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