It's been a while since I've worked on my dbs what with working at
Access in the office <sigh>. I'm so grateful to come home though to
FMP when I figure out how I need to fix my solutions; it's so much
more intuitive than Access and I progress at light-speed compare to
MS' app! <g>

I did run into a problem with a process today. I set up a script to
take user from the main input screen to a preview mode using a
completely different layout. It enters that other layout in preview
mode okay, maximized and everything. Then pressing "continue" takes
the user back to the main screen, window toggled back to zoom. The
problem lies in that one has to push the "continue" button twice,
which is no good.

Here's my script as it stands now (is there a way to export script
contents, btw, to make copy/pasting script to a text environment like
this easier??? <g>):


- Allow User Abort [Off] ... to take out the "cancel" button
- Go to Layout ["Preview of Main Input screen"]
- Toggle Window [Maximize]
- Sort [Restore, No dialog]
- Enter Preview Mode [Pause]
- Pause/Resume Script []
- Go to Layout ["MAIN ENTRY SCREEN"]
- Enter Browse Mode []
- Toggle Window [Zoom]

Thanks so much!

Cerulean wrote on (8/27/2005):

You have the pause option selected as part of the Enter Preview Mode step,
followed by a another Pause. Two pauses, two continues.


If you have Acrobat Distiller, print the script to a PDF, then copy the
text.

Matt

In article <qq02h1h0sshu542bmjt062l9qd3jc5hasv (AT) 4ax (DOT) com>, Cerulean
<Spamming (AT) NOTallowed (DOT) com> wrote:

Ummm ... get ready for one of those "DOH!" moments we all have. )

Unless it's a typo in your message, your script above does actually
pause twice, so that's why you need to click Continue twice:

Enter Preview Mode [Pause]
Pause/Resume Script []

Either turn off the Pause option from the Enter Preview Mode command or
remove the entire Pause/Resume Script command - that'll fix the
problem.



Helpful Harry
Hopefully helping harassed humans happily handle handiwork hardships ;o)

On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 16:09:27 +1200, Helpful Harry
<helpful_harry (AT) nom (DOT) de.plume.com> wrote:

<chuckle>

Great! That did the trick. I took the Pause out of the [Pause]
portion in the first line.

I'm not fully trained or anything, just a power user. FMP is so
logical and intuitive and such a delight to use that a person like me
with no actual training in this type of thing can make up solutions so
very easily - but with little glitches like this along the way, as you
can see <lol>. (My Access skills are even less; but there are a lot
of wizards so despite it being much more complicated, can manage to do
some rudimentary things in it! <g> I'm always impressed with FMPs so
much easier ways of being able to do things for the same results!!!)

I just copy/pasted the above two lines of code and their respective
other lines from other working script and modified them for this
solution. Each step worked in its original environments! <g> Thanks
for teaching me where to look next time I ever need to press a button
twice! I'll kow what I'm looking for! <g>.

Thanks!

Very helpful, thanks, Harry! D

On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 01:19:38 GMT, "Matt Wills" <I'm (AT) Witz (DOT) end> wrote:

<lol> Got it. Now fixed. Phew!

Excellent! I _do_ have that. I'll have to give this procedure a try.

Thanks!