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Well, this may not be what you want but it sure is way cool... http://www.cs.brown.edu/cgi-bin/colorcomb

What I have done now is download Deacons MenuControl and I think I'll just sell the farm and go with that. It really does seem to be the best way to take control of this situation. One of the things I really have never liked is Filemaker advertising on my back. i can live with the splash at the end of the runtime,it's only proper, but showing all my customers what they are missing with a bunch of dimmed out menu items just kinda burns me. A lot of my customers just barely eek their way into computer awareness...god luv'm. I really hate having them more confused with useless menu items. Anyway before I ramble, there seem to be quite a few +'s for that $329.

So Reed, do you think this is a Dev 7 improve, because I haven't had any luck with your sugestion.

woops, I didn't scroll down far enough on Dacons page, 329.00 is a lot better. I do like the idea of clearing off those FM useless menus. Thanks for the tip Steve.

I looked at Dacons MenuControl and was impressed until I got to the pricing, $3500 for the unlimited is way beyond our plans unfortunatly. If it were just one customer it would be great but the solution is actually being designed for an industry with multple sales potential. Thanks Steve I'm going to try Reed's login solution, Thanks to both of you for the posts.

I tried to install os x on my starmax and it went to toast... (stupid is as stu...) Sometimes I just get my cart before the horse while looking too far down the road. Here is a completely off track problem I'm having that has me a bit confused. I have a potential runtime customer that want's a kiosk portal interface for employees to work with but he wants to break out of the kiosk and be able to administer the related databases in the typical non-kiosk interface. It's looking quite impossible to me but then I am really new to kiosk. Have you ever encountered this?

The 2 macs I now use are numbers 11 & 12. With a wonderfull interlude with the starmax (wow what a tough old bird that was) it makes a total of 13 over a 20 year span (I actually still have my Claris Filemaker 1 manual on the shelf). If I have to buy a pc some day it probably will be a sony. ...reminiscing about the past is the first sign of senility, right?

Boy it's just irony...my pc is a throw away too. I use a Belkin switch so I can use my very nice sony trinitron for both. My throw a way is a compaq 4000 and is faster than my 3 year old G4 dual. I'll still take the G4. They said I could have the pc but not the monitor...I said OOOOOKKKKK cuz who want's to pay for that stuff when the're throwin' it away. Kinda looks like I'm not missing anything here with the color options. wow, what fun, build in windows, move to mac to correct color and add graphics, go back to windows to bind it, then back to the mac to correct the wierd stuff from windows, then... i'm tired.

I develop my solutions in both mac and windows and sell them as separate versions. I do all my graphic work on the mac side (photoshop) then develop the solutions on the windows side. The reason for this is mostly an issue of text variables being easier to adjust in the mac version after creating the solution in windows. The most annoying problem I experience is the color selection options available on the windows side is so limited compared to the mac options (ie no: color picker, web safe selection etc.). Am I missing something obvious in the windows filemaker environment? FileMaker Version: Dev 6

I am a Mac person (19 yrs). That said, I use a windows machine and a mac to create runtime solutions. I network the two (and other machines) together so I can pass FM files. I then use a 2 port KVM switch (iogear) so I can use the same monitor, keyboard, and mouse. I build in mac, move the database over to windows and go through every single item (fields, scripts, fonts, layouts, relationships etc.) one by one and re-build on the windows side. I originally started building in windows and moving to mac and while that was the best for conversion, working in windows is like riding a 10 year old donkey when you have a 2 year old throughbread chomping at the bit in the next stall. Filemaker pro developer disk has both windows and mac versions on it. It has to be installed and run completely separately and you have to have 2 complete and separate versions available for your users. That's some of my experiences.