Hi all,

I have a portal which displays a graphic (green button) if a match is found
in another file. Clicking the button opens the related record in the other
file allowing the user to see the details. The button identifies the student
as having Special Educational Needs. Opening the related record shows the
details.
It works fine except that I can't seem to control the size of the window
when it opens. What I want is for it open to a shrunken window about a
quarter the size of the whole screen so that it is obvious to users that
they need only to close this new window to return to the main file rather
than opening maximised thus throwing my novice users into panic..
All of your thoughts are much appreciated.
Regards,
David

I made an answer yesterday under the topic :
"Re: Setting new window in FMP7"
that may apply to your need.
PS : you dind't mention your FMP version.
Remi-Noel

"Price" <dp (AT) brynymor (DOT) f2s.com> a écrit ...

Price wrote on (9/1/2005):

Assuming FM7/8:

The New Window script step provides for specifying the name, size and
position of the new window.

The trick is to prevent an existing window from being reduced in size when
a new one is opened. To do that, make the existing window one pixel
smaller in both dimensions rather than maximized. Using the Adjust Window
step, you can do this by trial and error, playing with the coordinates
until you have what you want.

I wanted to be able to size several windows, so I wrote a script that
grabs the coordinates and stores them in global fields for re-use later.

If you're not using FM7/8, you could try Remi-Noel's suggestion, using
disabled copy of the main layout with a smaller "window" superimposed on
it. Not much else available.

Matt