Re: Focus Ring

I don't know if this is exactly what you're looking for, but I'm doing
something in all of my solutions that sounds similar.

I assume you've already got a serial number field. If not, you need one.
This is auto-entered, unique for each record, and non-modifiable.

Create a global text field

Store a colored rectangle in a global field. Make the rectangle the
"focus" color you'd like.

On your layout, place the Highlight_Indicator field behind your data
fields, and make sure the data field fill is off (transparent). Format
the container field to fill the frame with your graphic.

Create a calculation container field; call it "highlight_indicator" or
something, where the calculation is:
Case (text_field = serial number ; focusfield)
This will display the focus field for the record you're looking at (see
below)

Add something along the lines of this step to each script that views
your records:
When selecting a record, set the above text field to the record's serial
number.

That should do it.

And yes, designing and creating an excellent interface can take longer
than making a database that works.

Abbott


In article <2005120308585416807%thisbeingmilt@gmailcom>,
This Being Milt <thisbeingmilt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Okay, here's another question for the group. On my main database page
> in the Body part I've got a list of all my records. When you select
> one of these records the details of the particualr record are displayed
> in the Footer part. The problem is that, apart from the little black
> line that FMP draws to the left of the line, there's nothing that
> really draws focus to which line has been clicked on. What I'd like to
> do is put some kind of focus ring around the current selected record.
> Any ideas on how to do this?
>
> Writing the dcatabase was the easy part. Getting it to look the way I
> want has turned out to be surprisingly difficult. :)
>
> Thanks.
.

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