Presentation of FM on MSWindows?

[wjmartin]

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?

[Genx]

I am now rubbing shoulders with the vulgar populous!

Thats a bit mean really.

But the answer to your question is unfortunately no... :)

[wjmartin]

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.

[Genx]

LOL!!

Yeh, but you have to remember, FileMaker is a database development environment, not a "gadget" maker.

[Reed]

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.

[Genx]

Yeah, probably, but hey, never said it wasn't.

[wjmartin]

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.

[Genx]

Lol, you're a crack up.

[wjmartin]

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!