I spend many hours refining found sets of records for one-off tasks that don't merit the development of a scripted sequence of Finds.
Having icons for the Constrain and Extend Found Set, that could be added to the Status Area, would be faster and more direct than going to the equivalent Menu Commands.
Couldn't we expand that a bit to say that developers can add icons to the status area?
That's an excellent extension of my suggestion, especially if we could load in sets of icons for various tasks.
Sigh, been asking for this for years! So glad at least a few of you want it. So two 'ideas'/ desires: 1. that there can be Constrain/ Extend icons on the toolbar and 2. that the developer can interrogate/ determine which toolbar icons are visible in the user's toolbar.
mardikennedy schrieb:
. that the developer can interrogate/ determine which toolbar icons are visible in the user's toolbar.
A toolbar that could be programmatically changed would be nice - a toolbar editor like the menu editor. Then one could think about returning back to the normal FM interface when building solutions.
+1 to custom toolbar programming... it's no different really than custom menus. In fact, could be tied into existing Custom Menu tool: just add a toolbar icon field and "include in toolbar when..." calculation.
After seeing at least two revisions of FMP since I first suggested this idea and it not being implemented for the Status Area, I've made some buttons for the Header part along with a Global Variable, two Script Triggers & a Hide Calculation to accomplish my needs.
Here are the Buttons which only appear when in Find mode and when the found set is less than the total record count.
(The Navigation Button opens a Card Window to help us move to the different parts of our solution)
The Global Var is $$FC and is set via either an OnRecordLoad Script Trigger thus:
or an OnBrowseModeExit thus:
The Hide Calculation for each button is thus:
Get ( WindowMode ) ≠ 1 or ( $$FC = Get ( TotalRecordCount ) )
Each Button drives a single script step; either Constrain or Extend the Found set.
Should I not have implemented this properly then surely you can help improve upon it.
With best regards,
John
Due to the lack keyboard short cut, and the lack of icon in the toolbar these are VERY UNDERUSED yet very powerful functions