I've got filemaker dev 5.

Is there a way to automatically set the application preferences, on a run-time solution?

Such as automatically have the username, and the 'enable drag and drop text selection' options?

Thanks

Ben Bradley

Hi Ben, you can change the user name through the Windows registry. Run regedit, then go to

[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareFilemaker<RuntimeName>5.0Preferences]

Double click "User name" and you can change the user name. This can be scripted (so to speak) through the use of a *.reg file if you want to do it automatically.

As for drag-and-drop, i don't know which setting it is, if it's even IN the registry; but if you can manipulate this through regedit, i suspect it would be one of the values under this registry key. Play around with these values (especially those under the key Dialogs, i suspect it may be in there) and see how they change the runtime's attributes.

Jerry

Had a look in regedit then and couldn't find anything.

Then went into the run time, preferences, and ticked the option.

Did another look in regedit and there it was.

An option in the Preferences key, Drag and Drop Text = 1!!

Excellent.

Thanks for letting me know where to look!