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SimpleKolorswap : The Indispensable Tool for Color Management in FileMaker

SimpleKolorswap : The Indispensable Tool for Color Management in FileMaker | Learning Claris FileMaker | Scoop.it

If you’ve ever been tasked with reskinning a FileMaker solution with a new color scheme, you know that what seems like it should be a reasonably easy job can quickly turn into a painstaking ordeal to track down every occurrence of every variant of every color in every style element.

 

This was exactly the problem that led the developers at Skeleton Key to create SimpleKolorswap.

Now you can easily take stock of every color reference in your custom theme, make changes to those colors, and save your changes as a new custom theme to be assigned to your layouts in a few simple steps.

 

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Naming Styles Interface Inventories | Soliant Consulting - FileMaker

Naming Styles Interface Inventories | Soliant Consulting - FileMaker | Learning Claris FileMaker | Scoop.it

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Try to make a habit in every project of doing some kind of interface inventory exercise after a few cycles of development: You’ll have plenty of real features to examine, and you’ll be able to find places to standardize and tighten up styling, building up the right library of styles to help developers work faster and cleaner in your layouts.

 

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Designing FileMaker Layouts Using Themes & Styles | Design for FileMaker Pro Developers

Designing FileMaker Layouts Using Themes & Styles | Design for FileMaker Pro Developers | Learning Claris FileMaker | Scoop.it
Learn about using layout themes and styles in FileMaker Pro

 

Themes and styles are one of the most useful design tools FileMaker has provided in recent versions.

By defining custom themes and styles, you have the potential to revolutionize your workflow, create a more consistent look from layout to layout, and easily change the look of individual elements across all layouts in a solution.


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Design: Themes in FileMaker

Design: Themes in FileMaker | Learning Claris FileMaker | Scoop.it
Why Use Themes in FileMaker

I know, a theme is always loaded in FileMaker since their introduction in FileMaker 13.

But a lot of developers do not know the rules of themes, when to apply the rules, how to modify themes, and how to use existing themes options to make easy changes to various objects on the layout.

Read more about themes in FileMaker and take the time to look at the presentation 'Understanding Themes and Styles' from Javier Durá

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Themes and Styles | The Philly FileMaker User Group

Themes and Styles | The Philly FileMaker User Group | Learning Claris FileMaker | Scoop.it
There has been a lot of talk about using Themes and Styles.  The future of FileMaker seems to depend on Themes, and they aren’t going away anytime soon.  I’ve had a hard time so far measuring savings in terms of development time – managing Themes and Styles effectively can entail a fair amount of work.    Read how Themes and styles can help you in your solutions ...
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FileMaker Pro 13 - Stylin' Part 2 | The Scarpetta Group, Inc.

FileMaker Pro 13 - Stylin' Part 2 | The Scarpetta Group, Inc. | Learning Claris FileMaker | Scoop.it

In FileMaker Pro 13 – Stylin’ Part 1 I demonstrated options and setting available for Styles.

 

This post, Stylin’ Part 2,  James Scarpetta is going a little further by demonstrating the actual styles available for Fields, Text, and Buttons.

 
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