Our company, StepUp Software, has written 3 plug-ins for FMP (using 
CodeWarrior C). Before you get too excited about using FB to create FMP 
plug-ins, be aware that the FMP API is not a very complete or useful way 
to extend the capabilities of FMP. It is not, for example, like the 
plug-in API for PhotoShop, which lets you add just about any kind of 
capability that you can dream up. THe FMP API allows very limited access 
to extending FMP and does not, for example, allow you to access the event 
queue, either to post or intercept events. The reason most FMP plug-ins 
have appeared on the Mac platform and not for Windows, is that the most 
useful way to utilize the FMP API is to send AppleEvents, which of course 
do not exist on the Wintel platform.

There is a small group of FMP plug-in developers who met at the last 
FileMaker Developer Conference to discuss the API and its limitations, 
and basically the conclusion we came to is that we just have to wait for 
FileMaker, Inc. to improve the API before it will be much use to anyone. 
Hate to burst anyone's bubble, but it's probably just not worth the time 
or effort to convert the C code examples provided for CodeWarrior to FB.

You can join an FMP Programming list which includes most of the current 
commercial plug-in developers by sending a message to :

FMP_Programming-subscribe@...

If you are an FSA member and have not purchased the FMP Developer 
Edition, the plug-in SDK is available in the member's area of the 
FIleMaker web site.

Jeff Hoffman
StepUp Software, Inc.