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?

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

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

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. ???

This is now solved with vs. 10!