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Working with layout themes

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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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