Hi, i'm currently developing a couple of solutions for 2 restaurants, one solution runs on a 100% mac environment, and has no problems (that's why i love macs) and the other one is for a fast food restaurant in which i need to use 2 pcs running windows xp and 2 elo touch 1529L touchmonitors,

the elo 1529L is a double screen touchscreen one faces the customer and the other the employee, the first problem i found on windows vs mac in filemaker is that for mac it opens separate windows, and on the pc the windows open on the application window so i can't really control the size of separate windows because the window app isn't controled by filemaker,any ideas here?

my other problem is when i try to get rid of the awfull bars at the top of each screen the only idea that came to my mind was using the kiosk mode from developer and force the solution into kiosk mode, however when i perform any script which involves jumping to another layout i'm forced out of kiosk mode and can go back to kiosk mode only if i click on the windows bar and then on any point of my screen.

what i want is that kiosk mode is always active at all times.

You shouldn't be forced out of kiosk mode as long as it is enabled in all files (are you using one file or more?) Also, the accounts used to access the file should not have access to any design functions like layout mode, value lists, scriptmaker, etc.

We've been running a kiosk system here for the past year with v7 (now using v8) with no problem on windows 2000, XP, and MacOS X. The only thing I had to add to the windows systems was a utility to disable Ctrl+Alt+Del, Alt+tab, etc.

thanks for your reply, i found out why i'm forced out of kiosk mode, but don't know yet how to solve it.

when i start my file (just one file in the solution) i automatically run a script that does the following:

go to layout ["main menu"(adminmenu)]

set zoom level [lock; 100%]

Move/resize window [current window; height: 600; width: 800; top: 0; left: 0]

show/hide status area [lock;hide]

i performed some tests and the problem is on the 3rd line in the move resize window this function or the restore window fuction force me out of kiosk mode and i use them because with this fuctions i create my second window for the other screen.

any ideas? could it be that in fm8 this problem doesn't persists?

thx in advance

hydra

Is the script set to run with full access? Certain script set to run with full access will kick the user out of kiosk mode

Reed, you're a genius, thanks man i owe you one.

regards

hydra