Does anyone have a good trick for creating a Splash Screen for use with a custom solution? I am on both Windows and Mac platforms so help on both platforms will be great.

when i need a splash screen, i just create a new layout. Make it look nice, professional, cool, whatever fits your needs, give a border and create a script called "Close" that goes to the layout, hides the status bar, make the window zoom ( make sure to put a border on the layout of the size you want the splash screen ) and then pauses a few seconds ( 5 is usually PLENTY, you don't want it to be too long, if there is not a lot of info, then 3 would even be good ), then throw in a close file step to finish closing the file. Set this script as to run on close in the edit/pref/document window. if you don't like this, you can do an actual splash type dialog box with Troi's Dialog Plug In.

jeremy

I am hoping to be able to do a real splash screen that is visible while my solution loads. It may not be a filemaker trick, it maybe another small app that just displays a screen while my solution loads. Any more ideas. Thanks.

Design your splash in a FileMaker layout (or copy the graphic into the layout) and use a script like this:

Go to Layout [ Splash ]

Toggle Window [ Zoom ]

Pause/Resume Script [ 00:00:03 ]

{Do the rest of your open script stuff}

Chuck