Developer’s Guide

Creating custom layout themes 55
Specifying default values for themes
FileMaker Pro and FileMaker Developer use default values to
replace attributes that are invalid or missing. For each theme listed in
a theme file, you can specify whether the default values are
determined by the current layout settings, which change when a user
changes them, or by standard layout values, which are the same
values that FileMaker uses when creating a file for the first time.
<THEMEDEFAULT VALUE=”CURRENT”/>
<THEMEDEFAULT VALUE=”STANDARD”/>
If you don’t specify a value for the THEMEDEFAULT element in
the theme, FileMaker Developer will use standard layout values by
default.
Using values for patterns and colors
The values for the patterns in the FileMaker Pro and FileMaker
Developer pattern palette are numbered consecutively, starting with
the top row and counting from left to right, where the value for the
pattern in the top left corner is 1. Five patterns in the first row can
also be defined with words: NONE (= 1), SOLID (= 2), DKGRAY
(= 6), GRAY (= 7), and LTGRAY (= 8).
Note The first pattern (value = 1) is transparent and the second
pattern (value = 2) is solid. For objects with a color fill, be sure to use
the solid pattern.
STYLE Character styles for text in fields,
text blocks, and field labels. More
than one style can be specified,
separated by commas or spaces.
No error checking is done for
contradicting styles, such as
UPPERCASE and LOWERCASE.
The PLAIN style value overrides all
other style values.
STRIKEOUT and STRIKETHRU
values are the same.
STYLE = “PLAIN”
STYLE = “BOLD”
STYLE = “ITALIC”
STYLE =
“STRIKEOUT”
STYLE =
“STRIKETHRU”
STYLE =
“SMALLCAPS”
STYLE =
“UNDERLINE”
STYLE =
“WORDUNDERLINE”
STYLE =
“DBLUNDERLINE”
STYLE =
“UPPERCASE”
STYLE =
“LOWERCASE”
STYLE = “TITLECASE”
STYLE =
“SUPERSCRIPT”
STYLE = “SUBSCRIPT”
STYLE = “CONDENSE”
STYLE = “EXTEND”
STYLE = “ITALIC,
BOLD, SMALLCAPS”
This
attribute
Is used to describe these
characteristics
And may contain
these values