August 8, 200718 yr Forgive me if this seems stupid, I have managed to avoid the joys of MS Windows thus far in my life but a recent system change means I am now rubbing shoulders with the vulgar populous! I have a little small windowed Filemaker DB, a kind of specialist calculator (really it is a one record 'app') that I provide to my Mac users. For them it pops open as a nice little single window they can drag about and put where ever they want on their screens while they work, dipping into it like you would with a real calculator on a real desktop. I am now providing it to some Windows users and instead of the elegance of the single window, FM opens a sort of 'desktop on the desktop' environment, my app sits on top of a big grey palette which hogs screen space and really kills a lot of the elegance it has on the Mac. My users now close the whole big ugly palette to reclaim screen space. Is there some way I can make my 'app' automatically appear in one small window?
August 8, 200718 yr I am now rubbing shoulders with the vulgar populous! Thats a bit mean really. But the answer to your question is unfortunately no... :)
August 8, 200718 yr Author This seems to be analogous to taking a calculator out of the drawer to use on the desktop - but the drawer remains attached to the bottom of the calculator.
August 8, 200718 yr LOL!! Yeh, but you have to remember, FileMaker is a database development environment, not a "gadget" maker.
August 9, 200718 yr LOL!! Yeh, but you have to remember, FileMaker is a database development environment, not a "gadget" maker. This may be true, but I still think the MDI in Windows is a poor user interface.
August 9, 200718 yr Author I just think it is a good idea if computers work the way humans do - but hay what do I know! I am not the worlds richest man, but I can sleep at night! -) To help me with this transition I am gluing my stapler to the bottom of my drawer right now - 95% of the worlds population must be right. I might do the same with my pen, after-all I wouldn't want that floating about unattached to anything.
August 9, 200718 yr Author The other thing I have discovered I will need to do to help me in this new Windows world is to stop my heart about once a day and shock it back to life, seems to be the norm round here! God my life was easy when everything ended in NIX!
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