Script Steps Reference

Table Of Contents
Appendix A
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Glossary 167
Tool panel
In the status area in Layout mode, the collection of tools that includes the selection tool
(pointer), text tool, line tool, rectangle tool, rounded rectangle tool, oval tool, field/control
tool, portal tool, tab control tool, web viewer tool, and button tool.
If you don't see the status area, click the status area control at the bottom of the document
window.
Toolbar
Use items in the toolbar to access many FileMaker Pro commands. Different toolbar items
are available in each mode. FileMaker Pro includes several toolbars: Standard, Text
Formatting, Arrange, Align, and Tools toolbar.
Tooltip
A small box that displays text when a user moves the cursor over a layout object. Tooltips
display in Browse and Find modes.
U
Unicode
A worldwide standard that, in one code page, provides a unique number for every
character in human languages, no matter what the platform, software program, or
operating system.
Unit of measure
In Browse and Layout modes, you can set the unit of measure to pixels, inches, or
centimeters.
Unstored calculation
A calculation field with a result that is only calculated when the value is needed, for
example, to browse or print. In most cases, FileMaker Pro makes a field stored when you
define it, but you can change the storage type to unstored.
URL (Uniform Resource Locator)
A web address, which consists of a protocol, a host name, and optionally a port, a
directory, and a filename. For example, http://www.filemaker.com/ , ftp://12.34.56.78:80/
myfiles/, or fmp7://mywebsite.com/sample.fp7.