I have read referrence to custom menus and toolbars.

How do I make them and use them?

Does anyone have an example of what they look like?

thanks!

On 01/15/2007 21:44:25 EMTMark (AT) gmail (DOT) com wrote:

Menus and Tool TIPS, yes. ToolBARS, no.

First and foremost, you have to own FileMaker Pro Advanced. These features are not available in FileMaker Pro "Regular." Custom menus and tool tips created in Advanced will function as designed when run in "regular" or in runtimes.

Custom menus look like any existing menu, except that you specify the text (either static or calculated) and attach a specified script.

Tool Tips look like a tool tip in any other app: a little popup box that appears when you hover your cursor over a button or object, generally to identify what the button does or what the object is. Like the Custom Menu, the Tool Tip text can be static or calculated.

The "calculated" aspect is the same as in any other FM calculation. Text displayed can be determined by results of functions (If, Case), even down to who the user is.

Matt

In 01/16/2007 14:31:02 Matt Wills <Im (AT) witz (DOT) end> wrote:

Clarification: the actions of Custom menus do affect the respective buttons in the toolbars. For instance, if you replace the File/Open menu item with another command or script, then the Open icon in the menu bar will perform the same action.

In my original response, I was thinking of a custom toolbar more as modifying (deleting, adding, rearranging) the icons themselves.

Sorry for any confusion.

Matt

Can custome menus be created in advanced and use is non-advanced
versions?


Matt Wills wrote:

Quoting my first response:

"Custom menus and tool tips created in Advanced will function as designed when run in "regular" or in runtimes."

Matt

On 01/17/2007 12:50:30 EMTMark (AT) gmail (DOT) com wrote:

Matt Wills wrote: