Developer’s Guide

5-10 Developer’s Guide
Themes use 6-digit color hexadecimal (hex) values to describe colors
(such as #CC9966), which can be found in most graphics programs
that use a color palette.
Themes should use web-safe colors for databases that will be
accessed by multiple platforms, displayed on monitors with varying
resolutions, or displayed on a network. However, when your
databases will be displayed on a single platform or at a high
resolution, the full RGB color spectrum gives you a much larger and
richer color set.
To find the color hex value for a color in the FileMaker Pro color
palette (a web-safe color palette):
1. In Layout mode, select a color and then choose Other Color from
the bottom of the color palette.
2. Select the HTML Picker icon on the left side of the dialog box and
read the hex value for the selected color in the HTML box on the right
side.
For more information about using patterns and colors in a layout, see
chapter 7, “Customizing layouts,” in the FileMaker Pro 5 User’s
Guide or see FileMaker Pro Help.
Adding comments to your document
You can add additional information to your XML theme documents
by enclosing the information in comment tags:
<!- - my comment here - ->
FileMaker Pro will ignore any unknown (but syntactically correct)
XML elements you may choose to include. This allows your theme
files to be backward and forward compatible with other versions of
FileMaker Pro.
Checking your theme document for errors
FileMaker Pro cannot parse an XML theme document that is not
well-formed, and it does not validate the XML in your documents.
If one required item is missing or wrong, FileMaker Pro will ignore
the entire document.
Select a color
Then choose
Other Color
The hex value for the selected RGB color is #CC9900
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here
Currently
selected
color
Color hex
value