Bruce,
To avoid restoring/resizing other layouts irregardless of the platform, instead
of maximizing or resize to fit (used to be my favorite), create the pop-up
layout with a specific window size (e.g. open new window with Height = 576
pixels x Width = 576, about 4"x4").
Create it off the screen (e.g. Top = 3000, Left = 3000), then move the window
to the desired position (e.g. Top = 36, Left = 36; or via a calculation to the
center of the user's window).
Credit to Jonn Howell on this.
Ciao.
Martin Cohen
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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Richard S. Russell, a Bright (http://the-brights.net)
2642 Kendall Av. #2, Madison WI 53705-3736
608+233-5640 [email protected]
http://richardsrussell.livejournal.com/
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The future is already here. It is just not uniformly distributed.
-- William Gibson
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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.)
= = = = = =
Richard S. Russell, a Bright (http://the-brights.net)
2642 Kendall Av. #2, Madison WI 53705-3736
608+233-5640 • [email protected]
http://richardsrussell.livejournal.com/
= = = = = =
The future is already here. It is just not uniformly distributed.
-- William Gibson
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