Ash435

Well I haven't found any other applications with unexpected scroll wheel non-support yet, nor any applications where when you grab the scroll bar and move it to the top, the list view doesn't actually quite go to the top, so you have to nudge it up a bit with the scroll arrows. The Apple way has always been that things should look good and work intuitively right from the start, so how come Filemaker looks rubbish and works unintuitively by default? (I thought they had strong links with Apple)

I'm new to FM and I was appalled that such an apparently revered product should have a default look that was so unpleasing to the eye. The lack of scroll wheel support in OS X and the stupid tiny scroll bars which don't do anything until you let go added to my disappointment and frustration. I'd love to be able to make my databases look like Panther instead of AmigOS 1.

Thanks Fenton. I can see I'll be visiting these forums a lot!

I'm new to FM and this was one of the many reasons I found the software difficult to get into. I can't believe they released it without such a fundamental feature. Is there some sort of patch?

Thanks for all the help - it would have taken me a long time to work all that out. Good to hear there are lots of options, even if database methods are a little new to me. I'm getting the hang of scripting so I'll stick at it! BTW, the target text is from a find not a portal. I'm still getting my head round portals. They're not anything to do with the film 'Donnie Darko' are they...?

I'm a bit new to databases but I'm very confused about this. I can make simple reports but I need to export lists of names (formlists; I'm a teacher) to an indesign document. I can't seem to just 'select' text across cells in a table or report like one does in excel (why not, it seems so fundamental?). The export text feature is longwinded if I want to quickly access 10 different classes and if I do the whole lot at once (grouped by class) there's no way to tell where one class ends and another starts. The only solution I've got is to export a report as a .pdf file (via Mac OS X) then select classes from there. Any help for a database newby would be appreciated! FileMaker Version: 7 Platform: Mac OS X Panther