


The Solution: Using the free plugin ScriptMaster to Screen Capture portions of a Web Viewer window. Usually I recommend that PassTracker owners run their systems on a Macintosh, but sometimes they already have Windows computers setup and don’t want to switch over.

My reason for attempting this project was to automate the process of taking customer photos at a gym for my PassTracker software. In the meantime, this hack provides a workaround. Hopefully this feature will be added going forward. Most PCs these days have a webcam plugged in and many laptops have built-in cameras, but so far FileMaker Inc., does not directly support the capability of taking photos in its desktop applications. FileMaker Go on mobile has the ability to grab photos right from the camera on an iPhone or iPad. I was able to achieve this previously on a Mac using AppleScript, but there is no similar easy inter-application scripting language on Windows. The Challenge: Capturing images from a web cam into FileMaker on Windows.
