Development Guide
Table Of Contents
- Chapter 1 Getting started
- Chapter 2 Customizing database solutions
- Chapter 3 Customizing menus
- Chapter 4 Creating custom layout themes
- Chapter 5 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
- Chapter 6 Debugging, analyzing, and optimizing files
- Chapter 7 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 8 Distributing runtime database solutions
- Appendix A Feature comparison of the runtime application with FileMaker Pro
- Index
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Index 97
Scripts menu
commands available in runtime
applications 89
Scroll Window script step 18
separators, menu item 25
Set Multi-User script step 90
Set Zoom Level script step 18
settings file 71
shortcuts
custom menus 26, 27
customizing 26
defined 22
menu item 26
Script Debugger 55
Show Package Contents command
(Mac OS X) 75
Show/Hide Status Area script step 18
Shutdown message sent to plug-ins 51
single-line XML elements for layout themes 34
size
of database files 60
of solutions 76
Solutions 72
solutions. See runtime database solutions
Sort Records script step 18
spell checking in runtime solutions 67
splash screen in runtime solutions 69
startup scripts
to display custom layout 68
statistics, database 59
status bar Help (Windows) 79
structure, database 59
StuffIt 77
submenus 22, 25
T
tables, database
excluding from Database Design Report 59
multiple per file 63
TechInfo Knowledge Base 9, 10
technical support
for FileMaker Pro Advanced 9
for runtime solutions 10, 79
testing
custom menus 30
database solutions 82
text editors 31
themes. See layout themes
title footer layout parts 35
title header layout parts 34
toolbar
custom menus 26
FileMaker Pro 87
runtime application 87
tooltips 11
touch screen, Kiosk mode 16
trailing grand summary layout parts 35
trailing subsummary layout parts 35
troubleshooting
calculations 57
custom menus 30
fields 57
Script Debugger 55
using Database Design Reports 60
variables 57
U
updates, distributing 83
upgrading runtime databases 72
user interaction with database solution 63
user spelling dictionary 75, 76
V
variables, monitoring 57
View menu commands available in runtime
applications 88
volume license 10
W
web 70
web browser users 9
web-safe colors 37, 40
Window menu commands available in runtime
applications 89
WinZip for Windows 77
X
XML
character entities 34
documents for layout themes 31
editors 31
format for Database Design Reports 59
XML 1.0 specification 33
XML-document processing instruction 33