RE: Dialog Box
RE: Dialog Box
- Subject: RE: Dialog Box
- From: "Sprague, Graham" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 16:36:01 -0500
Why not just use a second FileMaker file with the fields needed and use
ScriptMaker combined with a relationship to update the fields?
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From: Jolly Roger
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Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 2:09 PM
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To: AppleScript Users
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Cc: Andrew Donnelly
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Subject: Re: Dialog Box
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On 11/29/2001 12:00 PM, "Andrew Donnelly"
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<email@hidden> wrote:
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> Hi , I need to create a dialog box that will float above an
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application.
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> This dialog box will be displaying a number that is calculated from a
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> Filemaker database. For example; the user will run a query on the
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database
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> returning 5 records. A script will calculate the number to display by
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> calculating the sum of values in the found set. I can accomplish this
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> easily but the user will have to run the script every time they need
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this
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> calculation. What I need is a dialog box that will float above the
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> application and continually update the text in the dialog box according
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to
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> the value returned from the database. The user needs to be able to
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> continue working in the application while the dialog box is displayed.
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> I hope this makes sense
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Look into Dialog Director. It does what you want.
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JR
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