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Specify Advanced Style Options dialog box

You can specify a window style in your New Window script step definition. This dialog appears when you select Specify Advanced Style or click Specify in the New Window Options dialog box.

To specify one of the window styles, select Document Window, Floating Document Window, or Dialog Window, then select one or more of the following Window Controls options.

 

Select or clear	To
Close	Enable or disable the close button in the window’s title bar
Minimize	Enable or disable the minimize button in a document window’s title bar
Maximize	Enable or disable the maximize button in the window’s title bar
Zoom Control Area	Enable or disable the zoom control and Mode pop-up menu at the left bottom of a document window
Resize	Allow or prevent the window from being resized

Notes

•	When you hide a button in the title bar, its corresponding menu command is disabled.

•	In the Microsoft Windows OS:

•	When a window is maximized, the maximize and restore buttons become a single button.

•	You can use a script or button script step to control a window, even if a button is disabled in the window’s title bar.

•	When you disable both the maximize and minimize buttons, these buttons do not appear in the window’s title bar.

•	When a dialog window is open:

•	Users can’t open a new file or run scripts from the Scripts menu.

•	Users can interact with non-document windows such as the FileMaker Pro Advanced Data Viewer and Script Debugger, if these windows are open when the dialog window opens. However, users cannot interact with open Manage Scripts, Manage Layouts, Edit Script, or Manage Favorites dialog boxes.

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Because dialog windows are modal, users must close dialog windows before they can open or interact with any open document windows or switch from Browse to Layout mode. However, solution developers can use a script to open another dialog window or a modal utility window (for example, the Manage Database dialog box) while a dialog window is open. For more information, see the table describing script step restrictions below.

•	Although all script steps appear active in the Edit Script dialog box, the following script steps cannot be used with dialog windows or their use is restricted.

 

Script step	Supported	Restriction with dialog windows
Adjust Window	Yes	Only operates on the current window
Arrange All Windows	No
Convert File	No
Go To Related Record	Yes	Can open a new dialog window only
Move/Resize Window	Yes	Only operates on the current window
New File	No
New Window	Yes	Can open a new dialog window only
Open File	No
Open Remote	No
Perform Script	Yes	Will fail, if executed from another open file
Quit Application	No
Select Window	Yes	Can select only the current dialog window

•	Any operations that attempt to open a non-dialog window will fail when a dialog window is open (for example, using a script trigger to run a script from another file). OnTimer scripts do not execute when a dialog window is open unless the script launches from the dialog window itself.

•	OS X: A FileMaker Pro dialog window does not have the same qualities or restrictions of a standard dialog window. For example, Apple events can communicate with a database while a FileMaker Pro dialog window is open.

Related topics 

New Window