Comments on: Hidden Gems 11.0

By: chivalry

chivalry — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 17:51:55 +0000

Honestly, I hate the font change in the calculation dialog boxes. I can cerntainly understand why having a larger font would be preferable for some people, but I prefer a smaller font and I prefer a monospaced font. Although generally I’m not a fan of additional preferences, this times it seems justified. I actually hate the font so much I’ve actually moved to using TextMate to edit calculations rather than the built-in editor in FileMaker. With the bundle I helped to write (http://code.google.com/p/filemaker-textmate-bundle/updates/list) I get code completion, syntax coloring and other features.

Regarding the moving of lines in lists, although it’s nice to be able to click and drag anywhere to move, I’ve found the removal of the ability to do so with the keyboard (unless I’ve not yet discovered how they’ve changed it) to be quite annoying. I used to be able to hold down the Command key and press the up and down arrows to move an item. That’s no longer the case.

By: LucThomaere

LucThomaere — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:45:07 +0000

That April Fool’s Joke was SUPER! So many good idea’s I wish Filemaker had adopted it as their todo-list.

By: Arnold Kegebein

Arnold Kegebein — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:43:36 +0000

I was a little bit fast with my conclusion about the new Window Size behavior. I tested it with full-size windows only.

Now I did further testing, recreating your results with less than full-height windows. See my new finding in the addendum in my post.

I do not the problems with the Inspector. I have only one Inspector window open, switching with Cmd+1/Cmd+2/Cmd+3 with my left hand between the three tab pages. That works fine on my 15″ MacBook Pro.

For the other remarks, FileMaker Pro 11 is out less than a week. I try to emphasize positive things, waiting a couple of days before I post a bad feature list. But, hey – perhaps I can work on a new April Fool’s joke.

By: LucThomaere

LucThomaere — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:42:51 +0000

Keep Window Size? I don’t see any difference with v10: the windows itself gets smaller and larger by hiding/showing the status bar (Mac OS X 10.6)

Moving lines in list : is indeed easier but putting a line at the first place is much more difficult. If you move too far, even a few mm, the line doesn’t move at all.

Also a step backwards is the layout of the import window, the one you use to match fields. You can hardly see the difference between the arrow and the … This will be a cause of many mistakes, i guess.

For screens smaller than 30inch and an AZRTY (or alike) keyboard without numeric pad, showing and hiding a specific inspector doesn’t work with the shortcut’s. It takes longer than before to change the most common things, like borders, pop-up menu’s, …

But generally, I love v11!