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How on earth does one use printer fonts in filemaker? they dont appear in the font menu!? Is there a plugin for this? Ben

This doesnt look encouraging http://www.filemaker.com/help/06-Create%20and%20manage52.html

Hi guys I need to print to an Epson T88II receipt printer. I have installed the windows but when i try to print in filemaker it is really really slow. now i have worked out that this is becuause i need to use the epson printer fonts, however these do not show up in filemaker. Word pay displays them in the font menu but filemaker and for example notepad does not. I cannot find them in the control panel font folder either. Anyone had expereince with this? How can i get that font to show up in filemaker like it does in wordpad? Any ideas? Cheers Ben

FYI - SecureFM plugin HotKey function sorts this problem You can set your own keyboard shortcuts which will work in kiosk mode. YAY!!!

bugger :

Ok ive got myself in a right muddle! I used the developer tool to set kiosk view for non admin accounts. I then carried on editing the database (for several days). I now need to remove that kiosk mode for non admin accounts! I tried running the file through the developer tool again with the kiosk mode unchecked, but it is still throwing me into kiosk mode. I really need to remove this setting, because i have done so much work i really really dont want to go back and do everything again : Can you help Thanks Ben

but if i have an ever looping script, wont that cause the database to freeze up? obviosuly capturing the barcode reader is not the only function of the db. Although thinking about it, does that mean i should have another file that just does the looping to detect barcode reader, and this passes data onto main file? can i do this in kiosk mode, i.e have multiple files?

what do you mean?

cant do that because i need the script to fire before input to goto correct field etc :

Hi I would like my file to run in kiosk mode, however i think i still need to be able to have access to keyboard shortcuts, i.e ctrl-1. I need this because i have to trigger a script when a barcode reader is used, an i am doing this by setting up ctrl-1 as a prefix to the barcode input. So i guess i need one of two solutions, the ability to trigger script from keyboard command in kiosk mode, or another way of tiggering a script when barcode reader is used. Help would be greatly appreciated cheers Ben

hi there I am building an EPOS system and i need to have portals on screen. Problem i am having is the fact the scroll bar for portals is small and cant for the life of me work out how to make it bigger and this is causing problem using touch screen to operate it, is is possible to make it larger? withough having to use the zoom function! Cheers Ben

does this mean i need to have advanced running on each machine, or only to set the script? Cheers Ben

hmmm well this works Go to Field [ ] [ Select/perform ] Go to Next Field Loop Exit Loop If [ Get ( ActiveFieldName ) = Get ( ScriptParameter ) ] Go to Next Field End Loop only prob is when i have fields in a portal, it just goes to the first portal row, even if the field i clicked was in say row 4!! arghhh wish filemaker would add this as a feature, as well as being able to hide objects in layouts through scripting. Would have thought they would look at stuff like this before they start doing web page panels etc. hey ho

i guess another workaround would be just to be able to put the cursor in the field that was clicked? any way of doing this?

Hi guys I have made a little popup numberpad, and i want it so that when they press a button in the popup numberpad it inserts the value entered into the field where the original button (to pop the number pad) was set. So basically i need to use setfield or insert calulated but need to be able to dynamically set the target field. cant see any way of doing this, am i missing something? cheers ben

Hi I want my database to run in full screen kiosk mode, however i cant run it as a runtime solution because its is a database shared over network. is there any way to set database to full screen kiosk mode in normal filemaker 8.5. cheers

ok im officially confused. trying to create data / ui seperation, only I cant work out where my table relationships should be, if i have them in the data file and remove all from ui, the ui just says 'table missing' all over it. However if i have it in the UI file I cant do lookup fields etc in the data file. What am i doing wrong, surely i dont have to match the relationship structure in both the ui and data file?? Cheers Ben

please ignore this post, i was being dense

well its a text field but what i mean is its a popup menu in the layout im using

Hi There In my script I have set a variable '$var_department' with the value of a field in my layout 'department'. this field is a drop down. For some reason the variable is not taking the value of that dropdown, is this a bug? If the department field is a normal text box it takes the value fine, any ideas? Regards Ben

Hi Guys I want to execute a script when the user saves changes to the current record. How would i go about capturing this event? Cheers b

That is music to my ears! thank you so much ben

Hi Guys I have quite a few scripts that rely on storing temp data in global fields (don't we all). Now this all works fine in a single user environment, but what happens when i deploy this using Filemaker Server with multiple users? I'm thinking that my scripts will go all screwy because the global data of one person will be overwritten by that of another. One example is I have a global field that tracks where the user has been in order to provide a 'back' button, i can't see this working in a multi user environment. So I guess unless Filemaker Server takes care of this sortof thing by itself, I need to know how to create a user specific global field, just like create a 'session' or session cookie in ASP etc. Any Ideas? Cheers B

Hi Fenton So sorry for not responding earlier, ive been hit with the lurgy for the last few days, not felt like doing much developing anyway, that file (with and or) is fantastic, thank you so much. im going to spend this weekend implementing it across my app. I hope it all goes well. I really do appreciate this... you will have to give me your address and ill send you a thank you present Ben

This works really nicely, same result as mine, however its easier to build into the standard interface. Is there any way of getting it to only search records in the current found set. I.e if you do a standard find on the CandidateName field (say put a 'j' in there to give you joe and jess) Can the skill search be then based on this current found set not all the records? Ive just had a panic. what about if people now want to search for Accounting OR Sales. I know its crazy in the fact that this is what filemaker does as standard, just trying to find a way to build an interface that can handle both. maybe i could put a drop down at the beginning of each line with (AND / OR). But as i dont 100% understand your solution, im finding it hard to work out how i could build that in. This is probably a bridge to far, but could i give them an overall option to either do an OR search or and AND search (not combined) ben