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I need to send the bound version 5 solution with the VIEW ToolBar and StatusBar unchecked to new users.

Where is the MEMU settings stored and what is the name of the file.

ALSO

Does anyone know how to turn off the Splash screen on the Version 5 bound solution.

Thanks,

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Thanks - Do you have an answer for my other question.

I would like to send my solution and have the ToolBar-Stamdard amd the StatisBar unchecked when the user installs it.

Do you know the name of the file and location, so I can include it with my installation program?

Thanks for your help.

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toolbars and status bar can be disabled, locked disabled or toggled with the apropriate script steps. Just incorporate them in your startup script. You can also turn off the status display in the window bottom when running Windows. (take a look at help -> script steps -> Window)

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Hi Ron,

The Toolbars and the Status Area (but not the M$ Window$ 'Status Bar', unfortunately) can be controlled using the following script steps:

Allow Toolbars [Off]

Toggle Status Area [Hide, Lock]

If you include one or both of these steps within a start-up script, you will have dealt with those parts of the problem that FMI have currently provided a solution for.

I've not seen a solution for the windows 'Status Bar' (that pesky, useless, screen hogging gray band along the bottom of the screen). I'm afraid it's an operating system thing rather than a FileMaker thing. Off the cuff, it may be possible to remove it by calling a VB script or using ActiveX, but I've not tried.

If you want to follow this up, you might like to look around developer sites such as:

http://www.codeguru.com/statusbar/index.shtml

to see what snippets of control code you might be able to track down that would enable you to get at the status bar - eg from within the Send Message script step.

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Hmmn. an afterthought...

It escaped my mind earlier, but there is also a third party product which provides the capability to control the 'Status Bar' via script. It is the 'SecureFM' plug-in from New Millennium Communications, and it works with runtimes as well as with FMP.

SecureFM:

http://www.nmci.com/Product_Detail.htm?pid=P61PPUGKCG0ZSQJBWUDO&-session=dwc:9E87A7CE0274C2FFF0FE463E74EABF03

The external plug-in function which controls the status bar was introduced with SecureFM v 5.5.2 in 2001, and this is what NMC said about it in their documentation at the time it was released:

"Set Status Bar! With SecureFM, it is possible to automate the removal of the Status Bar on the Windows platform (the Status Bar is that extra bar at the bottom of the window which has almost no functionality)."

...their words, not mine, but I can't say I disagree with the sentiments.

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  • Newbies

You can also turn off the status display in the window bottom when running Windows. (take a look at help -> script steps -> Window)

cjaeger - how exactly are you saying this can be done? I don't see a way to do this by script.

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I think if you read the comments from CobaltSky, only the Status Area and Toolbars can be controlled by script, but not the Status Bar, except maybe with the plug-in he mentions.

cjaeger is probably thinking of the Status Area?! crazy.gif

HTH

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i remember to have read that it either in fm help or an article on

http://www.filemaker-magazin.de.

will check, though.

(i am developing on OS X as main platform, so i may have mistaken sth. there)

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Well, i think you can edit the registry and turn off the Status bar from within filemaker setting the corresponding key to zero.

HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareFileMakerFileMaker Pro5.0ToolbarsBar0

value=0(visible)/1(invisible)

to activate Registry changes, either use WSH or run a *.reg-file using "send message" step. Be VERY careful about changing the Registry, though.

send message, "regedit /s fm_no_toolbar.reg"

where fm_no_toolbar.reg

-------------snip-------------------------------------

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareFileMakerFileMaker Pro5.0ToolbarsBar0]

"Visible"=0

-----------snip------------------------------------------

return at end is necessary.

here another key:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareFileMakerFileMaker Pro5.0Preferences]

"Window"="100 100 500 500"

sets the window position.

ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY - use regedit exe to check the correct keys for your FileMaker- and Windows versions.

these tips originate from:

Carsten Belling

E-Mail: <[email protected]>

URL: http://www.bellingswe.de

As I have said - I use Applescript most of the time.

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Hi Ron,

I'm afraid that the Allow Toolbars [ ] script step was not introduced until version 5.5 of FileMaker, so you won't find it in 5.0v3.

The plug-in that I mentioned earlier (SecureFM) also has a script command to control the toolbars.

I daresay that a modification of the registry (on windows) would deal with the toolbars as well as the status bar, but I wouldn't recommend it in either case - it is much too risky if you don't even know what operating system versions your users may run the solution on - now or in the future. What works on some or even all current registry configurations may not work on one that comes out next year, and I should think users would be *very* unimpressed if a runtime brought down their workstation.

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