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Working with layout themes - FileMaker Pro Tutorial
From the course: Learning FileMaker 16
Working with layout themes
- [Instructor] So before you start building layouts I think it's important to understand this concept of themes and styles and really how they relate to each other. Now themes in FileMaker help you create a visually attractive user interface by providing consistent styles for buttons, fields, backgrounds, and all sorts of other objects on your layout. And what a theme does is apply these predefined font sizes, colors, paddings, and other styling to all the different layout objects that you have in your file. It's pretty much like themes in other applications that are created by Apple. You don't have to do any of the styling, you can just provide content and apply the themes to it and the theme does the rest. That's the same thing here in FileMaker. Now when you select a new theme for a layout all existing layout objects will adopt the new theme styles. So really what a theme is is a collection of styles that can be applied to layouts. Styles allow you to easily define and apply…
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Contents
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Using guides, arranging, aligning, grouping and locking layout objects7m 12s
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Applying themes to layouts1m 28s
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Working with shapes in your layouts6m 14s
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Applying screen stencils6m 13s
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Working with images and icons on your layouts5m 57s
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Gradients2m 6s
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Formatting fields and applying field attributes5m 35s
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Layout object states6m 2s
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Access control behavior1m 59s
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Using the tab control feature6m 36s
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Using slide controls in your layouts4m 15s
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Popovers in your layouts6m 18s
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Setting the tab order3m 23s
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Learning how to conditionally hide layout objects4m 52s
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Using the layout objects window5m 28s
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What are scripts and script steps?2m 43s
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Assigning script steps to buttons4m 2s
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Touring the Script workspace4m 11s
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Creating multiline scripts6m 58s
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Adding find criteria to a script7m 27s
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Using new window script step8m
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Understanding the "If" script step5m 41s
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Using script parameters, set field, and error capture5m 10s
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Sending emails in your scripts6m 4s
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Importing scripts from other files3m 7s
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