Version history Dateįirst version to be published by Claris Corporation initiated a new marketing program at their annual developers conference in August 2018 to address its poor description categories: 'Workplace Innovation Platform'. had always had a hard time of describing what FileMaker software is because it is more than just a database, it includes the user interface, security, rapid application development tools, etc. Perhaps there are easier methods and if you have one I would love to hear about it.FileMaker Inc. The highlight of the Button Bar was not staying in sync with the slide panel. The benefit of having the name at the top is lessened because the user is not clear which panel they are on. Here is what was wrong: if the user tapped the Button Bar, it would highlight the correct button and show the right panel, but if instead, the user, slides the Panel, the Button Bar would remain unselected-no header was highlighted. I wasn’t totally happy with the result though, so I set out to improve it. In my recent article about a Mortgage Calculator, I used this combination of Button Bar and a Slide Panel to present data entry for three different scenarios and an ‘All’ tab to show the scenarios side by side. We don’t have that yet, so here is how to emulate one. The best of both worlds would be a Sliding Tab Bar. The advantage of using a Button Bar to emulate a Tab Label is that it gives the user more information about where they are on the layout. Button Bars are cool because they take care of highlighting themselves (with a little help sometimes). iOS users are increasingly used to the idea of sliding things around on their screen. Why bother you ask? Well you get the cool slide animation effect when using Slide Panels.

Someone recently suggested (a blog, at DevCon? Sorry I lost my source on this one.) using the combination of FileMaker 14’s new button bar with a Slide Panel to emulate a tab panel.

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