Developer’s Guide

5-8 Developer’s Guide
HINT The name of the platform that
the theme name is edited on.
This attribute ensures that any
upper-ASCII characters
present in the THEMENAME
value (for example, an accent
over a letter in the theme’s
name) will appear in
FileMaker Pro on both
Windows and Mac OS.
HINT = “WIN”
HINT = “MAC”
ONOFF Whether a field’s border
should be displayed (turned
on or off).
VALUE =“ON”
VALUE =“OFF”
PARTNUMBER To distinguish multiple
leading or trailing
subsummary parts in a layout.
This attribute is ignored for all
other parts. FileMaker Pro
supports values 0 through 9
and ignores any other value.
VALUE =“0”
VALUE =“1”
VALUE =“2”
VALUE =“3”
VALUE =“4”
VALUE =“5”
VALUE =“6”
VALUE =“7”
VALUE =“8”
VALUE =“9”
PATTERN One of 64 valid patterns from
the fill pattern palette in
FileMaker Pro—for
background fills in layout
parts, fields, text, and field
labels, and for borders of
fields, field labels, and text.
See “Finding values for
patterns and colors” on
page 5-9.
PATTERN = “1”
PATTERN = “47”
PATTERN = “64”
PATTERN = “NONE”
PATTERN = “SOLID”
PATTERN = “LTGRAY”
PATTERN = “GRAY”
PATTERN = “DKGRAY”
This attribute
Is used to describe these
characteristics
And may contain
these values
SIDES One to four sides on a field’s
border.
To describe all four sides, you
can combine all four values.
VALUE="TOP"
VALUE="BOTTOM"
VALUE="LEFT"
VALUE="RIGHT"
Or any combination, such
as:
VALUE= “TOP BOTTOM
LEFT RIGHT”
VALUE= “LEFT TOP”
SIZE
(for the FONT
element)
The point size for a font. Any
valid point size can be
specified.
If a font size is unavailable on
the computer or for a
particular font, FileMaker Pro
will substitute the closest size.
SIZE = “36”
SIZE = “12”
SIZE = “9”
SIZE
(for the PEN
element)
Thickness in pixels for the
outline of text blocks, field
labels, and field borders.
The value for NONE is “0”
and the value for HAIRLINE
is “-1.”
When applied to field borders,
this pen size also applies to
the line width of an EFFECT
attribute (such as
DROPSHADOW) and must
have a value greater than zero.
SIZE = “0”
SIZE = “-1”
SIZE = “1” through
SIZE = “8”
SIZE = “12”
This attribute
Is used to describe these
characteristics
And may contain
these values