No each file has its own window memory. They each have 2 actually, one for Mac; one for Windows.
I wish I could remember what the define fields trick was for…
Geoff
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Did that placement obtain for every subsequent file, or would each file remember its own local placement?
Your description does indeed ring a bell.
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No need to open any dialogs.
FileMaker reopens a standalone file at the same size and location as when it was last closed. This then becomes the size and location for all users when the file
is copied to a server.
I used to size/position files top-left(ish) of screen before closing and deploying to the server, to cater for the range of screen sizes in use by our staff.
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On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 6:35 AM, Geoff Graham <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Richard I don’t think you had that command in 5.5. They used to have several layouts with different sized graphics just so they could use the ‘size to content’ command.
But this is in my memory:
Open the file locally with full access (no server) on both platforms. Make the window the way you want it, and then go into define fields. You don’t actually have to define a field, but you have to do enough to make FileMaker save the window info into the file.
Does that ring a bell with anyone?
Geoff
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On 2015 May 11, at 14:16, Gary Scott <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
When using FMP Server V5.5 my windows appear on screen in various positions. What controls where a window will appear? For example:
Open first data file and its window is in upper left corner of the screen. A script in first data file opens a second data file. The window for the second data file appears in the middle of the screen.
I would like all windows to appear in the middle of the screen.
OK, I know the following works on a Mac, but I won’t testify to its behavior under Windows, which IMHO does bizarre things with its windows.
Howsomever, a little experimentation should enable you to zero in on the desired behavior.
Script the “go to Layout X” command and in that script insert a “Move/Resize Window” step. That step doesn’t offer an explicit “center on the screen” command, which is what you really want, but it does allow you to specify window height, width and upper-left corner position.