Developer’s Guide (Mac OS)

Preparing solution files 3-5
3. Make sure the “About” layout includes a button that lets your
end-user return to the original layout.
4. Do one of the following:
1 Write a script that displays the layout each time the end-user starts
the bundled solution.
1 In FileMaker Pro 3.0, select Preferences from the Edit menu. In
Document Preferences, set the Switch to layout option for the primary
file. Select the “About” layout as the layout that appears first.
Note In the FileMaker Pro Runtime application, when you or end-users
select About FileMaker Pro Runtime from the Apple menu on the
Macintosh or the Help menu on Windows, you see the standard
FileMaker Pro Runtime “About” dialog box. You can’t change or
remove the text displayed in the “About” dialog box, including the
Claris copyright and trademark notices.
Creating customized Help
The FileMaker Pro Help system is not available in the FileMaker Pro
Runtime application. Many of the features of FileMaker Pro are not
available in FileMaker Pro Runtime and the standard Help would cause
confusion to your end-users. You need to create a Help layout
customized to your solution files.
Claris recommends Use the help layout in the Sample Solution file as a
guide for developing a Help system.
To create a Help layout:
1. Using FileMaker Pro 3.0, open the Cat_Help file in the Sample SDK
Solution folder (SAMPLE on Windows) in the Tools folder for the
sample Help layout.
The Sample SDK Solution demonstrates a button driven help system
that is seamlessly integrated into the solution. Using FileMaker
buttons and commands, the user is directed to a separate file where
they select help topics from a menu. A return button is available to
return the user to the main solution file. This is just one way of
integrating a help system in your solution.