I currently have a field that "Flashes" or "Blinks" when you navigate to that layout.

It is the only one on the layout that does this.

I cant seem to locate any information about a problem such as this.

Has anyone ever had this happen before?

Thank You,

Brandon

Try setting the fields background to white, also try sending it to the back in the layout order.

Ok, it worked! I sent the field to the back.

Now 2 questions?

1. What made it do that in the first palce?

2. How the heck did you know that? I searched everywhere and found nothing.

Thanks for the help,

Brandon

Edited December 5, 200619 yr by Guest

Well in filemaker, there are effectively layers.

When you move to a layout, everything will load from back to front -- i.e. everything at the back loads first and then everything loads layer by layer towards the front.

How did i know it? Because i had to work it out -- it's much more noticable when your accessing over the net -- i put all my interface items at the back to load first and then the data on layers progressively up in the way that i want it to load. Oh and images... i.e. container fields.. always last.

That's brilliant.

Now to the complementary question. How do you make text blink/flash?

Only with a refresh window ... (or a commit record which will refresh the window anyway) and depending on what you've got on that layout, i seriously wouldn't recommend it on windows.

It will go... spastic on you for lack of a better word. Trust me i've tried almost everything with UI.r