Here are some notes about Leverage connectivity that haven't made it into the document yet.

Images:
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Transfer of images is incompletely documented.  Here are a few notes (and there are others listed under bugs and misfeatures):
- transfer is between Leverage note fields and FileMaker Pro picture fields
- only "polygons" (the sort of thing you get when shape recognition is turned on, perfect circles and straight lines, for example) and signatures (see below) are transferred from Leverage to FileMaker Pro.  Text and ink are quietly ignored.
- the transfer from FileMaker Pro to Leverage places the image in the background of the note.  you can sketch on it, but not modify it (but see below -- it won't resynchronize with both the original image and the sketched annotations, yet)
- Leverage makes no attempt to scale the imported pict, and there is no horizontal scrolling in the note
- both the import and the synchronize script (FMToLev and FMLevSync) move images, but the export script (LevToFM) does not
- as you might expect, transferring picts can take a while.  There are reasonable life signs when the transfer is into Leverage (Getting pict ... in the status panel), but there is no real indication that progress is being made when transferring to the desktop (i.e., synchronizing Leverage records to FileMaker Pro).  Please be patient.
- Leverage makes several annoying noises while receiving picts
- presumably something bad would happen if an attempt was made to import or sync FileMaker Pro data that included Color QuickDraw opcodes or something other than a pict

Synchronization:
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Contrary to the printed/electronic documentation, it is no longer necessary for the _soups database to exist prior to synchronizing.

Bugs, Misfeatures, and Limitations:
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FileMaker Pro repeating fields are not handled very well (i.e., they don't survive import/export/sync intact).  This should not be surprising since Leverage doesn't have a good analog for repeating fields, but it may be improved.

The scripts expect serial connections to be made via the modem port.  You can modify the script or download the printer port versions from our ftp site. 

Text in note fields does not export/sync to FileMaker image fields.  Ink doesn't export/sync either, but it may never do so.  Ink text probably will someday.

Although images can move in both directions (Leverage sketches into FileMaker Pro and FileMaker Pro Pict images into Leverage), they do not turn around gracefully.  Once a sketch or signature or other drawing from Leverage makes into FileMaker Pro, it is turned into a pict image.  When it is returned to Leverage (assuming the record it is in was modified so it returns in a later synchronization) it REMAINS a pict and is no longer editable.  If it now returns to FileMaker (i.e., some field in the record was modified in Leverage so it is due to return in a later synchronization), the image will disappear if any modifications have been made to the note in Leverage.  In other words, you can sketch on top of a pict that has been imported from FileMaker (whether it was originally a sketch in Leverage or not), but when it is returned to FileMaker Pro, all you'll have is the sketch (if you change something else in the record and leave the note alone, the pict in FileMaker will be intact).

The option in FMToLev to save the output to a file uses Apple's Scriptable Text Editor, which is limited to 32K files.  This option is primarily for debugging purposes.

Last modified 5 June 1997