Developer’s Guide
Table Of Contents
- Chapter 1 Getting started
- Chapter 2 Using FileMaker Developer features
- Chapter 3 Using the Developer Utilities
- Overview of preparing your solution files
- Modifying database solution files
- Considerations for a runtime database solution
- Binding databases into runtime database solutions
- Saving and reusing Developer Utilities settings
- Converting and upgrading solution files
- Removing full access privileges from databases
- Chapter 4 Distributing runtime database solutions
- Chapter 5 Customizing database solutions
- Chapter 6 Creating custom layout themes
- Chapter 7 Developing third-party FileMaker plug-ins
- About external functions
- About the example plug-in
- Installing, enabling, and configuring the example plug-in
- Description of the FMExample plug-in’s external functions
- Using the example plug-in
- Customizing the plug-in example
- Requirements for writing external function plug-ins
- FileMaker messages sent to the plug-in
- Avoiding potential Mac OS X resource conflicts
- Providing documentation for your plug-in
- Registering your plug-in
- Appendix A Feature comparison of the runtime application with FileMaker Pro
- Index
Chapter 6
Creating custom layout themes
FileMaker Pro and FileMaker Developer use a variety of layout
themes to describe the colors, patterns, fonts, and borders of text,
fields, and parts in a new layout.
A theme is an Extensible Markup Language (XML) document that
can be read and edited in a text editor (such as Notepad for Windows
or BBEdit for Mac
OS X) or XML editor (such as XML SPY or
XMetaL). You can customize an existing theme or create your own,
and then use the New Layout/Report assistant to apply the custom
theme when you create layouts for your databases. You can modify
attributes defined by the theme in Layout mode after the layout is
created. However, you can’t apply a theme to an existing layout.
Note A FileMaker theme is not a stylesheet and does not contain
positioning information for objects on a layout.
For information about:
1 using layout themes and designing layouts, see Help
1 XML and its uses, see www.filemaker.com/xml
1 publishing your database on the web in XML format, see the PDF
manual, FileMaker Instant Web Publishing Guide
Modifying FileMaker Developer themes
FileMaker Pro and FileMaker Developer include theme files that can
be modified. A theme file can contain more than one theme. For
example, the Blue_gold.fth file contains two themes: “Blue and Gold
Screen” (for viewing onscreen) and “Blue and Gold Print” (for
printing).
Create themes to automatically apply different styles to text and background fills in layout parts, fields, and field labels
Fill color and pattern for header part
Fill color and pattern for body part
Fill color and pattern for footer part
Field label
Field text
Field fill, border and shadow effect
Text in footer part
Text in header part