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Have you ever been too lazy to click twice and select Tools>Script Debugger when you were about to run a script from the Script Manager? I thought so, because I am. A quick shortcut is to hold down the shift key as you click on the Run button. Voila! The Script Debugger magically opens and pauses on the first script step.
To follow up with the presentation from Tuesday night, here is the first of half a dozen or so posts going into more detail on my demo files.
First up, navigating an array of fields in an arbitrary order (as opposed to tab order).
First, a little setup. To make this work you need to give layout object names to all the fields in the array. I just chose array01, array02, etc. so we can do some simple math to find out which object to go to.
Be sure and name and or number all your layout objects.
When Filemaker allows us to go to field by name, this solution will be a little more elegant, for now you just need to name the layout objects and your field names can be arbitrary.
More after the jump:
Continue reading ‘Tips and Tricks: Arbitrarily Navigating an Array of Fields in FMP 10′
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