Developer’s Guide

3-8 Developer’s Guide
5. Choose Scripts menu > ScriptMaker and create a script that goes to
the About layout. Include the word “About” in the script’s name.
About <solution name>
6. Use the Developer Tool to create a menu command that displays
the About layout.
The Developer Tool uses the script’s name for the name of the menu
command. See “Adding a custom script to an About menu
command” on page 2-12.
You can also display the About layout by:
1 Creating a script that displays the layout each time the user opens
a solution file. (See chapter 10, “Creating scripts to automate tasks,”
in the FileMaker Pro 5 User’s Guide or see FileMaker Pro Help for
information.)
1 Setting the document preferences for the primary file to always
display the About layout when the runtime application is started.
(Choose Edit menu > Preferences > Document, select Switch to layout,
and choose the About layout from the pop-up menu.)
Creating a custom Help layout or file
Create a Help layout or file that provides instructions for how to use
your custom solution and enter data. Then, create a script in the
primary file of your solution to display the Help system, and use the
Developer Tool to make the script available as a command in the
Help menu. (See “Adding a custom Help script command to the Help
menu” on page 2-13 for information.)
FileMaker Developer provides three examples of integrated Help
systems that you can study and get ideas from—located in the Kiosk
Solution Example, Runtime Solution Example, and Relational
Example.
The Kiosk Solution Example contains a single Help layout
In the Relational Example, a custom Help layout appears
w
hen you click the ? button in each auxiliary file
Help button