Filemaker Preferences

["... you mean these fans?"]

Hi,

 

I would like to know if I can remove the "Filemaker Preferences" in my custom menu.

 

I've created a menu set with no actions … completely blank.  However, I still get the "Preferences" and the "Help" ??

 

Is there anyway I can remove them.

 

Please see pic.

 

Thank you.

 

Tom

[Rick Whitelaw]

Couldn't you just remove the FileMaker Pro Advanced menu set? Never tried it.

 

edit: Just tried. What I suggested doesn't seem possible. The Help can be removed or customized tough.

[hbrendel]

This bug is present on mac since the stone age. (ie. since the very introduction of custom menus)

[Lee Smith]

I wouldn’t call it a Bug when it doesn’t work the way you want it to. Call it a Feature that you would like them to change. These two items work now as FileMaker intended them to. They state so here, FileMaker Help >> Custom Menus “Note: You cannot change the title of these two menus”.

Why do they want it like this? My guess would be that they want to make sure that the user knows FileMaker is tool you used. They also want a help file.

FileMaker likes to let people know that FileMaker was the tool. At least that’s the reason they have a Flash Layout in the Runtimes.

Here are two videos by Matt Pertrowsky at ISO Magazine here and here that I found spot on.

Lee

Edited October 15, 2014 by Lee Smith
reword to make it clearer.

[hbrendel]

The Help and the Preferences definitely have to be present. But the Help menu is replaceable. The Preferences menu is replaceable under Windows.

 

I talked about this with a FM employee (don't remember his name) during DevCon in 2007. He admitted that this was something they had problems with on the Mac platform.

 

It's awful. You don't want the end user to have a possibility to mess with fonts or a place where they can disable plugins. I need a Preferences menu tailored for my solution.

 

A bug, a PITA, a longtime standing BUG !!

[Lee Smith]

Did you make an official request to FileMaker, or are you relying on the FM employee?

[hbrendel]

I did that a couple of times in the past. Now I've given up. It's a fact of life.