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Understanding states - FileMaker Pro Tutorial
From the course: FileMaker Pro 13 Essential Training
Understanding states
In previous movies, we've looked at how you can apply formatting to objects on your layout. In this movie, I'm going to show you how the objects in your layout can have different states and how you can apply different formatting to each individual state. In Layout Mode, you can apply specific attributes to different objects on screen. Each of the objects has different states as you can see by selecting the company logo, you navigate over to your Inspector in your Appearance tab. If you look on the top of the inspector, you'll see these little drop-downs here. What these drop-downs are tells me what's selected, first of all, and if it has different properties - in this case the container only has one property. But down here below, is something that's called a list of states. So for example, a field can have a Normal state, a Hover state, a Pressed and an In Focus state. Let's take a look at what those are by actually applying different formating to each state. So first of all Normal…
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Using guides and arranging, aligning, grouping and locking layout objects10m
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Applying Screen Stencils3m 25s
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Placing and formatting graphics in layouts5m 34s
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Applying gradients2m 19s
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Formatting fields and applying field attributes6m 24s
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Understanding states5m 9s
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Setting field behaviors3m 23s
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Using the Tab Control feature9m 6s
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Using the Slide Control feature6m 42s
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Using the popover feature7m 40s
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Setting the tab order4m 29s
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Learning how to hide layout objects conditionally6m 4s
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