I'm not exactly sure where to post this question so I thought I would start here.

Is there a way to increase the font size or magnification of the various dialog boxes?

When I go into the define field mode and start to enter a calculation, the screen is so tiny that I have to get real close to the monitor and squint. My eyes are already weak and getting weaker from this effort.

Does anybody know of a way to zoom in on these dialog boxes?

Thanks,

Jarvis

FileMaker Version: 7

Platform: Mac OS X Panther

Other than decreasing your screen resolution, I haven't found any way to increase fonts in the layout developing dialogue boxes.

hmm the OS display prefs in windoze should change it, but everthing else too. It there something simular in OS X?

Charles

Sure is. In Universal Access, Seeing tab, turn on Zoom (big button at top). Then you can use keyboard shortcuts command option + and - to zoom the entire screen.

Ken,

This sounds like just what I am looking for.

Where is this Universal Access option located?

I have a MacIntosh G-4., running OSX Panther.

Jarvis

I guess all the e-mails I sent to FM on this subject were ignored. Seems to be that FM7 (I think it's using Tahoma 8) is slightly better than FM6 (MS Sans Serif 8). I tried all the settings in Windows and none of them changed the font size.

Another usability problem is that you can't adjust the relative width of the View section in ScriptMaker's Specify Calculation screen. So if you are using External Functions, you can't read them. This was another thing I complained about before. You wonder if FM reads any of the suggestions sent in by users. Maybe they only have 800x600 monitors at FileMaker?

I wonder if the guys who program FileMaker ever use it! You would think the program had about 100 users instead of 8,500,000.

FileMaker Version: 7

Platform: Windows XP

Since you're using FMP 7 you can create a new window (and associated layout) to simulate the dialog box. You can make it look any way you want.

I beleive he's refering to the development/layout dilogue boxes, not the user defined areas.

Unfortunately, changing all the Windoze settings only seems to affect the main menu bar and such, not the internal dialogue boxes, such as "define database".