Developer’s Guide
Table Of Contents
- Chapter 1: Installing FileMaker Pro Developer Edi...
- Chapter 2: Binding solution files
- The binding process—an overview
- Before binding
- Binder and runtime terminology
- Specifying the primary file
- Naming the runtime solution
- Assigning the binding key
- Choosing auxiliary files
- Choosing binding options
- Assigning the three-character extension
- Specifying a location for solution files
- What happens during binding
- Binding cross-platform solutions
- Changing solutions
- Chapter 3: Preparing and managing runtime soluti...
- Chapter 4: Distributing your bundled solution
- Appendix A: Feature comparison—runtime Appendix ...
- Appendix B: About the TechInfo database
- Index
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The following are examples of characters that won’t display properly
across platforms:
Windows-only characters:
1 1/4 symbol
1 1/2 symbol
1 3/4 symbol
Mac OS-only characters:
1 ≠ (not equal sign)
1 ≥ (greater than or equal to)
1 ≤ (less than or equal to)
1 √ (square root/check mark)
Color palettes
When 256 or more colors are available, FileMaker Pro will offer an
88-color palette that is virtually identical across platforms. (Close
substitutes are used for the 13 colors that do not match exactly.)
Windows computers using a standard VGA driver will only display 16
colors. Some older Mac OS computers may also be limited to 16 colors.
The 16-color palette in FileMaker Pro varies slightly between Windows
and the Mac OS, depending on the Windows color scheme you are using.
If you are building your files on a 256-color computer, you might want
to use colors that will map well to 16-color systems. It also helps to
know which colors map to black and which map to white for
monochrome displays.
Dotted colors are available
on 16-color systems
Palette indicating which colors
map to black or white