Runtime version "About" layout

[terrib76]

Help! In a runtime solution you can add an "About ..." menu in the Help menu. Its a script called "About" and it points to a layout in the main file. It's supposed to display info on your business and solution so FileMaker won't get calls on it. This About menu is accessible from any file in the solution (under the Help menu). Unfortunately, if you're in a different file, other then the main file and access the About menu option, after reading it and clicking OK, you're sent back to the main file. It won't send you back to the file you were in! I called FM tech support and they couldn't solve it. Does anyone have a solution or suggestion?

Thanks!

[The Bridge]

One suggestion, assuming that all of your navigation is scripted, i.e. movement between files and layouts is all controlled by script, not by the user selecting files from the Window menu:

When navigating to a file or layout, store the filename and layout number in a global or globals in your main file. Then, when your About... script is finished executing, you can navigate the user right back to where he/she was before selecting About... using conditionals.

That's about... it. Hope this gives you a start in the right direction.

[rrb011270]

Hello,

Can you give me a sample script code to start with? I also plan to implement this technique in my DB application.

Is there an existing dB that use this technique?

I appreciate your help.

thanx