The Separation Model – Part 25 – Window Management

by Matt Petrowsky

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Oh, to keep things clean and tidy. That's the feeling many of us seek much of the time. Things can be found and seen when they are clean and neat - it also "feels" better.

These same feelings apply to times when bringing up new windows within the context of your own solution. Simply throwing windows all over the place in your FileMaker solution may invoke that same feeling when you're handed a business card and it feels like single ply toilet paper - wimpy.

It's all about perception. Fortunately, you get to control how windows appear within your FileMaker solution. With a bit of creative scripting, you can actually make this happen in a semiautomatic fashion. Throw in a little bit of Layout Properties and a few handy custom functions, and you've got a window management system which is both easy to implement and use.

Do you use something else which works better? We'd love to hear about it. Leave a comment.