Making A Window Appear in the middle of Screen

[Andy Robo]

Hi All

Been extending my mathematics over the last day, and thought those of you working at a similar level of development (ie. very basic) might like this little operation to get your windows to pop-up in the middle of a user's screen.

When using the MOVE/RESIZE WINDOW script step, add the following calculations in the dialogue box;

- select 'specify' for both 'distance from left' and 'from top'

In the calculation, enter:

(Get ( ScreenWidth )-Get ( WindowWidth )) / 2

(for the 'from left' option)

and

(Get ( ScreenHeight )-Get ( WindowHeight )) / 2

(for the 'from top' option)

In addition, I created two custom functions to return these calculations whenever I need them

Window to Centre Height

and

Window to Centre Width

Then when working with the 'specify' option, you can just call the custom function for each option.

Seems to work OK.

Andy

FileMaker Version: Dev 7

Platform: Mac OS X Panther

[MoonShadow]

Hi Andy,

Thanks for the ideas!

One thing however ... I've found that I don't need (or really want) the screen size, but rather want what FM refers to as the desktop size. Why? Because the screen size doesn't take into account whether someone's task bar is displayed. And if you want a 'full window,' part of it may be hidden under a task bar. Or if their task bar is displayed on the side, it won't center perfectly.

By using Get (WindowDesktopHeight) instead, it centers no matter whether their task bar is showing - or whether they have dragged it to two row-height or placed it on the sides. So I use WindowDesktop for determining both height and width available for my windows placement. At least that's what my tests indicate. But I'm still just a newbie with FM7.

FileMaker Version: Dev 7

Platform: Windows XP

[Andy Robo]

Bonza beauty mate - that's apples!