We are primarily a Mac shop. I have been running a database solution in which is hosted on one of the Macs here and is accessed by 5 client computers. We just recently added a PC.

I noticed that when I open the hosted files on the PC all the related files show up along the bottom of the screen. This makes it a bit confusing to the user, especially if they click and open one of the related files. Is there any way to NOT have all the related files show up along the bottom of the screen like this? From what I have seen there is nothing to be done about this.

And also, why is it that if I have a startup script with Status Area Hide [Lock] as one of the items, and if this related file is opened from another file, or is opened directly thru the "Open" menu the status area locks, but if I open it through the menu "window" on a mac or from along the bottom list of open files the status area will not lock?

LR

The display of the open files along the bottom of the screen on Windows is due to the MDI interface that M$ was pushing a while back. It made the application open and files then opened and displayed within the application. This is not the case on MacOS.

Your status area issue is how the file is being opened. I suggest that you explicitly open each file by running an external script from you main file into each other other files, and run you startup script. These files are most likely being opened by relationships and this does not cause the startup script to run.

On PC, I maximise *every* window and keep them maximised. (I've started doing it on Mac too just for consistency.) Restore or minimise one window and the whole lot seem to go silly.

Switch between files using the "Refresh Window [bring to front]" script step. When switching between files I change the file I'm leaving back to a benign "about" screen. That way if users bring it forward using the Window menu they have to "start at the beginning again" to navigate their way through the interface. This both discourages them from using the window menu and stops them from doing anything inappropriate when they do.