I'm used to seeing the icons in Filemaker and know they each mean different things (coffee cup, spinning beach ball mean the server is busy, hourglass or butterfly means something is busy on your local machine).  But recently, I think since switching to FileMaker 12, we also get icons of double headed arrows -- sometimes pointing both up and down, sometimes pointing both left and right.

 

What do these mean?

 

Good morning, Hollyheadhunter!

 

In version 11, we were given four black handles which appear on layout objects when selected.  Hovering a handle produced no additional effect.

 

In version 12, we are given eight transparent-fill handles and double-arrow is produced when hovering, telling us we can resize the object from that point.   

 

Are those the double arrows you are talking about?   :-)

Thank you, LaRetta!  

 

I do know which ones you mean -- but these are different.  These are double headed arrows that appear in browse mode when the system is going slowly -- they are icons that float around as your mouse moves, like the spinning beach ball.

I've never seen those icons. And I never heard that the icon was which machine was "busy". Do you have documentation of that? I always thought the icon was controlled by the OS (and is modifiable somewhere). Are you seeing this behavior on specific machines or across the board?

Sounds like a scroll wheel thing on Windows.

Sounds like a scroll wheel thing on Windows.

 

Yep. If you press down on the wheel itself rather than either of the buttons it puts the application into a semi permanent scrolling mode where a double or quad headed arrow appears.