Topic: FileMaker Layout Design
So, why is the Scriptology Theme Studio so helpful?
With its combination of useful tools and ever growing collection of attractive layouts, the value of the Theme Studio is pretty high. "I just wanted to save time when working in Layout mode - I wanted to do things faster." said Matt Petrowsky of ISO FileMaker Magazine.
The product pretty much speaks for itself as soon as you start to use it. Since it is itself, a FileMaker database, it centralizes all of your graphical efforts. This really impacts the design process...
FileMaker plugins
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Plugins
Let FileMaker Pro interact with hardware devices called Phidgets!
24U Phidgets Plug-In lets you connect different kind of phidgets to your computers USB port and interact with them directly from FileMaker Pro.
Primary features:
Control your solution by hardware buttons, switches, and sliders
Display data on LCD/LED displays, indicate status by...
The only cross-platform telephony integration for FileMaker Pro
24U Phone Companion ties FileMaker Pro to your PBX to give your database solution a full control over your phone.
Primary Features:
Get a client on phone with a click
Answer a client's call with a click
Find calling client's info instantly
Log incoming, outgoing, and missed calls...
The easiest way to present database data using live-updating charts!
24U SimpleChart Plug-In generates charts into calculated or regular container fields. Unstored charts can be updated automatically after editing data or changing found set, with absolutely no scripting required. Stored charts can be later modified by adding new data series or...
Displaying custom dialogs & progress bars in FileMaker Pro has never been so simple!
24U SimpleDialog Plug-In allows you to display almost arbitrary dialog boxes combining text fields, passwords, check boxes, radio buttons, pop-up menus, images, separators, and static text captions. All is as easy as the FileMaker Pros built-in Show Custom...
Manage files & folders anywhere on your computer directly from FileMaker Pro!
24U SimpleFile Plug-In allows you to create, delete, copy, move, rename, read and edit all your files and folders directly from your databases. Unlike other tools, SimpleFile recognizes almost any file path format you can imagine, including paths natively used in...
Secure protection of your intellectual property easier than you can imagine!
24U SimpleHASP Plug-In allows you to protect your FileMaker Pro solutions by using Aladdin HASP HL or compatible keys. With this plug-in, you can encrypt and decrypt data, read or write to the memory of the key, and get information about the key.
Primary features:...
Tooltips, coachmarks, roll-overs & more guidance for your FileMaker Solutions!
24U SimpleHelp Plug-ins goes well beyond the FileMakers built-in tooltips functionality. You can display tables, web pages, animations, or any other HTML contents in SimpleHelp enabled tooltips. You can also use coachmarks, roll-over effects and other interactive...
Highlight found text, records, portal rows, and rectangles, generate pictures!
24U SimpleHighlight Plug-In is a sample FileMaker Pro plug-in project based on 24U FM Template. Its purpose is to highlight text and rectangular areas with a user-defined (calculated) color. Since verstion 2.0 it also generates pictures from numeric data.
Primary...
Custom sound effects, background music & more audio for your resonant databases!
24U SimpleSound Plug-In enhances your FileMaker solutions by allowing you to record and play your custom sound effects, spoken instructions, background music and other audio. It doesn't mater which operating system your clients use. You can play any sound format...
Talk to another FileMaker, talk to other applications, talk to your database via TCP/IP!
24U SimpleTalk Plug-In allows FileMaker Pro to communicate with user, another FileMaker Pro, and other applications via TCP/IP. You can simply trigger scripts or evaluate calculations in remote FileMaker Pro clients, or seamlessly integrate FileMaker Pro with...
Get a box full of the most useful simple functions for your daily use!
This plug-in answers the question "If I was to buy a single plug-in, which one should I get?"
Primary features:
Execute system scripts (Bash, Perl, PHP, Python, AppleScript, BAT, VisualBasic Script)
Execute SQL on the current database
Count and substitute text using Regular...
Record, replay, automate, and present usual user actions!
24U VirtualUser Plug-In allows you to simulate usual user actions (such as mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes), run scripts, and record and replay all actions.
Primary features:
Record user actions (mouse moves, clicks, keystrokes)
Replay, i.e. simulate user actions mentioned above
Run...
Clipboard Explorer lets you examine, save, and restore things copied to the clipboard (aka pasteboard) from various programs, including FileMaker.
After copying FileMaker scripts, fields, tables, or layouts, you can convert them to text with Clipboard Explorer, then save the text in your database. Sort and categorize these reusable objects, then...
Take advantage of features created specifically for FileMaker developers. Search inside of scripts, tables, fields, and lists, evaluate selected text, and more.
Say you need to modify every call to a CriticalFunction(), but how can you find all the scripts that use it? Developer Assistant's Toolbox lets you search for "CriticalFunction", and it...
Finally you can create dialogs with unlimited numbers of buttons, stylized text, menus, fields, and checkboxes. Items flow one after another with automatic line breaks and button centering that allow you to design dialogs quickly, or you can set item alignment or absolute position to get exactly the layout you want.
Use dialogs to focus the user’...
Take control of your keyboard and mouse. Link hotkeys to scripts or variables, continue paused scripts, and simulate key presses. Pick the mouse pointer shape and determine where it was last clicked.
FileMaker 10 introduced hotkey support, but Keyboard and Mouse lets you or your customers use hotkeys all the way back to FileMaker 7. Keyboard and...
Use scripts or field values to draw lines, shapes, text, or color directly on your FileMaker layout.
Create an image of tabs, then recolor and draw on the image to highlight the active tab. The same tab image can be used in many databases and you can even create multiple images for multi-row tabs. As a bonus, you'll also get certain functions from...
Menu Popper shows a multi-level pop-up menu anywhere on your FileMaker layout.
Menus show wherever the user clicked, or at the position you specify.
Save space by changing a series of buttons into a single button that pops up a menu.
Menu items chosen can return a value different from what the menu item says, so you can do things like return a...
SQL (Structured Query Language) is an industry standard method of reading and writing to most databases. SQL Runner gives you the power of SQL in FileMaker 7v3 and later. Now SQL queries can be run anywhere you can put a calculation: In scripts, field validations, auto-enter field values, and so on.
SQL ignores FileMaker table relationships,...
ScriptMaster is a free, general-purpose, modular plugin. It comes out of the box with modules for file manipulation, URL and network utilities, Web Services, shell scripting, event/script triggering, and many others.
ScriptMaster leverages the awesome power behind Java and allows you to do things with FileMaker which may not otherwise be able to...