FileMaker Weetbicks

As-You-Type Window Naming and Selection

March 14, 2011 / 5 comments

In applications such as Mail, you may notice that window names can be dynamic, dependent upon the contents of a field. In the case of Mail, the subject dictates the window name. In this article I'll demonstrate a way this can be replicated for FileMaker, and more importantly, how these dynamic windows can easily be selected again once created… Read more...

Hide Custom Menu Elements Dynamically

February 9, 2011 / 20 comments

When FileMaker 11 was released, one of the lesser documented changes in behavior concerned the defining of menu names when dealing with Custom Menus. When any menu element has an empty name, an interesting thing happens… Read more...

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