I'm trying to call up a floating window for a cross platform solution. A simple New Window, Pause, Close Window when users selects a Continue button.

It's fine on a Mac where non-maximized windows are the norm, but on a Windows (via Parallels) it seems that a the New Window script step "Adjusts" the original window and resizes it.

I'm not familiar with Windows' window management. Am I barking up the wrong tree here or can I get a floating window over a maximized window in Windows?

And to clarify...

I like floating windows for two reasons:

One it gives the user a sense that the place they're in is temporary and once they click Continue or Cancel, they'll be back where they started from.

And two, it's a simple way of preserving the tab panel.

See if this helps:

http://www.fmforums.com/forum/showpost.php?post/179233/

Window management with FileMaker has never been cross-platform consistent. Basically, in WindOS, all windows must be maximised, otherwise all windows must be restored. So it's not possible to have a little window floating over a maximised window.

The work-arounds are to: 1) never have floating windows and keep all windows maximised; or 2) never have maximised windows but make them *look* maximised by sizing them to fill the available application window space (but they'll still have their own title bars).

Yes, it sucks.

To me the best solution is not to use maximized windows under Windows. I normally make my main window slightly smaller than the available screen space (about 50 pixels less at both dimensions). This makes it simple to open and manipulate multiple windows.

Thanks all. There seems to be consensus that this is the best way to do it. Don't think I like it, but that's why I use an  :wink2: