change size of dialog boxes permanently?

[Thomas]

Hi everybody,

with FM 5.0 we have the wonderful opportunity of changing the size of certain dialog boxes (field definition, scripts etc) I was wondering if there is a way to permanently set the size of these dialog boxes to a larger value (which I guess needs to be done with ResEdit). Anyone done that before?

Thomas

[Chuck]

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Originally posted by Thomas:

Hi everybody,

with FM 5.0 we have the wonderful opportunity of changing the size of certain dialog boxes (field definition, scripts etc) I was wondering if there is a way to permanently set the size of these dialog boxes to a larger value (which I guess needs to be done with ResEdit). Anyone done that before?

Thomas

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There have been hacks that have done this with previous verions of FileMaker (3 and 4) but nothing has come out that I know of for 5. This is often considered to be a major oversight on the part of FileMaker Inc. The best I can off is that FileMaker has promiced in the next version to make changes to the dialog box size perminent in the next version.

As a temporary workaround, you could set up a QuicKey to resize the boxes for you so that when you open one, you press a key combination and it resizes it to your preferred dimensions.

Chuck