Does anyone know if you can change an object that is named on your layout, (not a field) such as the color of a line of text typed directly on the layout?

I have a few items I would like to change based on conditions in scripts, but most of the operations you can choose in a script have to do with fields and do not seem to effect the named object (named objects being the latest feature of 8.5)

such as the color of a line of text typed directly on the layout?

Merge fields exhibits such virtues! An other way is to make a thingy appeare in a visibility portal:

http://www.databasepros.com/FMPro?-DB=resources.fp5&-lay=cgi&-format=list.html&-FIND=+&resource_id=DBPros000743

An important thing to realize is the matter being just a pix outside a portal remains despite the status of the relational matter.

--sd

Thank you for your reply, while Im pretty familiar with the visibility routine on the DBP website... its manipulating object attributes through scripting on named objects that Im really after....can you site any examples of this with merge fields?

Not named objects I'm afraid.... unless you can make something like this:

http://www.filemakerpros.com/LessSort.zip

...pull it off! What I thought of was like this template....

--sd

Attributal.zip

That answered my question perfectly! Thank you so much. Maybe we'll get more control over objects in Filemaker 10?

Thanks again!

- Joel