ISO FileMaker Magazine: FileMaker Video Tutorials, Templates, Help & More

by Matt Petrowsky

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After working with FileMaker's window script steps, for any length of time, you quickly start to realize there must be an easier way to center windows. Yeah, you can center the current window right within the New Window script step. But, what about making the centering optional based on either the monitor screen or the parent window.

Now, I'm sure there are thousands of different ways to approach this problem. Some of my fellow developers never want to see the window appear anywhere on the screen other than the intended final destination. Myself, I'm ok with a little resize and on-screen moving.

So, my typical approach is to use a few dedicated custom functions and a "one-stop-shop" script for managing all windowing functions.

You can find the functions I show in this video at my github repository here fmpfunctions on GitHub.com

If you have your own method for managing windows I'd love to hear about it!