On 2009 Jan 20, at 7:48, Bruce Button wrote:
Greetings!
Can anyone help? What is the best/standard way of creating a pop-up
layout in which the user can enter selected information? ...
2. Create a layout for the purpose: Of course, this is as flexible
as it
needs to be, both in terms of data to be entered and in terms of
visual
layout. However, it does have some issues:
a) If the pop-up layout is not maximized (which it usually won't
be), opening it restores any other layouts that are already
maximized to a funny size. This necessitates a few extra script
steps and calculations to keep everything looking professional.
Window manipulation is one of the tasks that FMP farms out to the
operating system. The behavior you describe is the way Microsoft
Windows works; the Mac OS only resizes the one window you tell it to,
leaving all the rest unaffected.
So, quite tongue in cheek, I advise you to change computers. 8^D
Seriously, tho, among the many things I've dropped in the FMI
suggestion box over the years is the idea that they take control over
window manipulation away from the OS and do it within FMP itself, to
achieve consistent behavior across platforms. I haven't yet sprung
for FMP 10. Does anyone know if they've adopted this suggestion in
10? (I'm still giddy over the inclusion of automatic tab renumbering,
which I've been begging for literally since last century.)
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