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Work with layout themes - FileMaker Pro Tutorial
From the course: FileMaker Pro 15 Essential Training
Work with layout themes
- [Voiceover] In the upcoming movies in this chapter, we're going to be looking at creating new layouts in our FileMaker custom app, using the FileMaker layout builder. And also a lot of the tools that are available to us in layout mode. But before I did that, I wanted to talk to you about the concept of a theme. Now themes help create visually attractive interfaces by providing consistent styles for things like buttons, fields, backgrounds, and other objects on a layout. And themes apply pre-defined font sizes, colors, padding and other styles to your layout objects. It really saves you a lot of the design work. So when you're selecting a new theme for a layout, all the existing layout objects adopt new theme styles. Each theme comes with a set of styles for each object type. So really what a theme is, is a collection of styles. Now if you're familiar with working on the web, if you've ever worked with style sheets. That's exactly what FileMaker uses. So underneath the hood, are a…
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