I can't get the scroll bar to show in a portal. When I select and unselect "show vertical scroll bar," it moves the shaded erea over to make a space for the scroll bar, but the scroll bar does not appear. There is only empty space there. It does not appear in either layout or browse mode.

What in the world am I doing wrong! Please help. I've spent two hours making new layouts, opening and closing the software, changing every setting I can find. Nothing!

Help, help, help.

--Kenoli

Select your portal and change the pen pattern to fill (top row, second box from left). If it is set to transparent, the scroll will not show. If it still doesn't show, change it's pen color to a darker color. BTW, even if set to transparent, your scroll will still work if you hold down your mouse on the bottom and top right corners of your portal.

Thank you so much. I wondered if it was an issue like that but didn't know what to fiddle with.

Another glitch. The scroll bar showed up and seems willing to scroll down, but when I try to scroll up I get weird erracti results with the scroll box flickering and everything happening except it won't scroll back up. Is there some esoteric setting at play here?

Incidentally, is Filemaker buggy. I could swear that I get different result at different times with exactly the same set of settings. I'll set a portal in a certain way or a value list in a certain way and get one result and then when I do it again, get another. I hope this is me overlooking something (though I could swear in each case after tracking myself that I haven't) and not an erratic piece of software.

--Kenoli

Hi Kenoli,

... but when I try to scroll up I get weird erracti results with the scroll box flickering and everything happening except it won't scroll back up.

I haven't experienced any of this, but I have read of a few portal problems. Maybe it plagues Mac users more. Perform some searches here on Forum (in FM7 and Portals) and you should get some answers. Have you updated to 7.0v2?

Some might disagree (particularly FileMakin' Tom, smile). FM7 has some bugs yes. What new software product doesn't? And it IS a new software product as much had to be re-written. You might want to post on each specific erratic result to see if others can help you pinpoint the problems. Many times, it is simply our mis-understanding the new architecture.