In Script Extractor I uploaded my quick and dirty utility to “pretty print” scripts extracted from a FileMaker DDR XML file.
FileMaker 9 broke that last year.
I figured there was some change to the DDR and I would get to it when I had a spare few moments. Well, lots of wasted spare few moments meant […]

I bumped into this article today from the creator of Things, a Getting Things Done (GTD) application.
In Albert’s Design MasterClass, I mentioned how we spent 3 days on one thing.
In the Things article above, this guy shows 38 samples of a single dialog box that he tried:

And then you realised that this is only a […]

Response to Darrin’s comments in the previous post:

robfm » What’s
up with HSB?: “When you change the RGB profile to your
Display Profile, notice the numeric values for the color
change back to what you first entered but the ‘visual color’
does not.”

Great […]

This is more of a gripe that I need to get out than a useful contribution to the FileMaker community. And I’m going to use some laymen descriptions that are possibly less than technically correct!
In Off Colour I mentioned my frustration with the limitation of the standard FileMaker Colour Picker in either 88 or 256 […]

In my post on the Design Master Class last year, I posted thumbnails of the before and after screens.
The idea of the thumbnails was to display the “squint-test” - a view of your screen when squinting, where you can’t see the detail of the screen, but can see the “flow” and “feel” of the screen.
But […]

Replacing confusion
Replace is one of FileMaker’s most powerful actions. It has terrific power to change the contents of a field in multiple records in one quick action.
Enough rope to hang oneself, as they say.
Last year, I spent an unduly amount of time explaining the replace dialog to many customers.

When you carefully read the dialog - […]