FileMaker Asia Pacific put on a 2 day "Developer Days" event, providing a great forum for local developers to gather and exchange ideas, plus hear from some the FileMaker team themselves on both product and market strategies... 5 members of Team DF made it along...
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Dynamically Resizing Backgrounds That Don't Distort
By Daniel Wood, 20 March 2017
If background images are used sensibly, they can provide a beautiful backdrop to areas of your solution, such as a login screen, splash screen, or indeed the entire solution. FileMaker allows the user stretch the window both horizontally and vertically in any ratio they wish. Anchoring has allowed us to try and compensate for this in our designs, but often images suffer because they are themselves a fixed aspect ratio, and deviating from that ratio will either stretch and distort the image if 'maintain aspect ratio' is off, otherwise result in blank space around the image edge if aspect ratio is on - both options are not ideal for a background image.
In this article we present a technique that allows you to resize an image and have it re-generate a thumbnail version upon resizing of the layout. This thumbnail version is a cropped version of the original, but respects the original image's aspect ratio. If you choose your image sensibly, you can make a layout background that looks great no matter what dimensions your window is set to.
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Building a Super Slick Search UI
By Daniel Wood, 13 March 2017
Search is an integral part of any solution, and can take many forms. FileMaker provides us with a useful native find mode, along with quickfind. Often though this is unintuitive for users, or just does not fit in with the design of a solution. In this article we present a slick, great looking search box UI design pattern, and explain how it is built. We also incorporate a number of native FileMaker techniques to achieve this (no plugins here!).
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A marriage made of dreams, code and custom T-Shirts.
By Morgan Chance, 17 October 2016
Some say you make your own luck and this story shows there is at least a kernel of truth in that, but I can’t help also feeling that sometimes you just get lucky. Read more → -
Sortable - A Developers Journey
By Kris Weyling, 7 October 2016
What follows is a tale of a developer. Like many tales it twists and turns, guiding the protagonist to embark on a journey of discovery. Read more → -
Introducing Morgan Chance
By Morgan Chance and Stuart Woodhouse, 20 September 2016
For a number of years now, Digital Fusion have had a large number of clients in Brisbane and the greater Queensland region. Read more → -
FileMaker Certification
By Stuart Woodhouse, 13 September 2016
With every release of a new version of FileMaker, we like to get our developers certified, both as a way to upskill our team, but also to show our passion... Read more → -
Tiki Tour To DevCon
By Kris Weyling, 13 July 2016
Before turning up at the FileMaker DevCon, Kris decided he'd fit in a bit of worldly travel that's seen him end up covered in mud at Glastonbury then enjoying a "summer" tour with Contiki around the UK in the middle of political and sporting crisis... how much fun could it all be?
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FileMaker iOS SDK - Part 4
By James Currie, 12 May 2016
Welcome to the fourth and final part of the FileMaker iOS App SDK series. In the final part of the series I will take you through building and compiling the... Read more → -
FileMaker 15 released
By Stuart Woodhouse, 11 May 2016
Earlier today FileMaker released their latest version, FileMaker 15
This is the first time that FileMaker have moved to their annual release pattern so you will see updates and patches more frequently.
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Firstly, there is a new full release right across the FileMaker product range. This means there is now FileMaker 15 for Server, Pro, Advanced, Go and WebDirect.
