My layout is maximized to full screen, but opening a new window shrinks it.

[JoniS]

My layout is maximized to full screen, but when I open a new window using a script, the original window is no longer full screen.

Is there a way to override this so that the original window stays full screen when another smaller window is opened from it?

[elo]

I've seen this behavior too, I just ended up adding a script step to maximize my original window after closing the utility window.

[LaRetta]

There have been many posts about this issue. You cannot run both maximized and still take advantage of windowing (and still maintain maximized). This isn't a FileMaker limitation but a Windows one.

The answer is to set your opening FileMaker window at a size maximum for your screens via startup script. You will lose a bit of real estate but that's the only way. Script I use, which takes into account the task bar and whether it is on left, right, top or bottom:

Move/resize window [ current window ; Height: Get ( WindowDesktopHeight ) - 4 ; Width: Get ( WindowDesktopWidth ) - 4

If you do this and open a new window, your background window will remain in place. I usually create several window size scripts (the above called Full Window) and then run this as sub-script during opening.

LaRetta

[JoniS]

Thanks, LaRetta!

Your script works great! And there's no more annoying resizing windows when I open a new window.

Even if a user decides to maximize the window anyway, this makes it so the window barely moves when a new window is opened. ???

[LaRetta]

This is now solved with vs. 10!