Developer’s Guide

4 FileMaker Developer’s Guide
What your users need 31
Documenting the installation procedures 32
Starting runtime database solutions 32
Recovering damaged files 32
Providing user documentation 33
Creating an About layout 33
Creating a custom Help layout 34
Including printed documentation 35
Your responsibilities as a developer 35
Testing before and after creating your solution 36
Distributing updates to runtime database solutions 37
Chapter 5
Customizing database solutions
About Kiosk mode 39
Navigating in Kiosk mode 39
Closing Kiosk solutions 39
Creating Kiosk solutions 40
Using scripts to control your solution 40
Creating startup scripts 41
Centering database windows in Kiosk screens 41
Emulating menu commands and window controls 41
Creating dynamic buttons 42
Customizing About, Help, and Scripts menus 43
Adding custom scripts to the About menu command 43
Adding custom scripts to the Help menu command 45
Renaming the Scripts menu 46
Chapter 6
Creating custom layout themes
Modifying FileMaker Developer themes 47
Requirements for theme files 49
Minimum XML elements for themes 49
Removing elements from theme files 50
XML elements for layout parts 50
XML elements for text 51
XML elements and their theme attributes 51
Valid values for theme attributes 53
Specifying default values for themes 55
Using values for patterns and colors 55
Adding comments to theme files 56
Checking theme files for errors 56
Chapter 7
Developing third-party FileMaker plug-ins
About external functions 59
About the example plug-in 59
Installing, enabling, and configuring the example plug-in 60
Description of the FMExample plug-in’s external functions 61
Using the example plug-in 62
Customizing the plug-in example 63
Customizing the example resources 63
Customizing FMPluginExample.cpp 64
Customizing FMPluginFunctions.cpp 64