• Way to get the inspector NOT to come up?

    From Barbara Fakoury@21:1/5 to All on Sun Aug 19 14:33:39 2018
    I'm on a 2011 Macbook Pro and just migrated from Filemaker Pro 9 to Filemaker Pro 12 Advanced.

    I am amazed at the number of changes they made for the worse. But that's another story for another day.

    The most annoying thing I find is that every time you go into layout mode and select an object, the inspector comes up. If you're formatting a layout or sliding things around, the thing just gets in the way.

    I would prefer to have it come up on Command+I (which is its menu command) rather to have it always come up.

    Is there any way to get it to do this?

    Thank you

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  • From Helpful Harry@21:1/5 to Barbara Fakoury on Mon Aug 20 10:25:14 2018
    On 2018-08-19 21:33:39 +0000, Barbara Fakoury said:

    I'm on a 2011 Macbook Pro and just migrated from Filemaker Pro 9 to
    Filemaker Pro 12 Advanced.

    I am amazed at the number of changes

    I went on an even bigger jump, from FileMaker 4 and 5 (briefly via 7)
    to 15 and 16 on my own computer, although I had occasionally had to use
    some intervening versions elsewhere. :o)




    they made for the worse. But that's another story for another day.

    Yep, there's been a ton of rather silly changes that have simply over-complicated FileMaker. Not the least of which is the horrible new
    'tree diagram' for Relationships. :o(




    The most annoying thing I find is that every time you go into layout
    mode and select an object, the inspector comes up. If you're
    formatting a layout or sliding things around, the thing just gets in
    the way.

    I would prefer to have it come up on Command+I (which is its menu
    command) rather to have it always come up.

    Is there any way to get it to do this?

    Thank you

    I'm not sure about in version 12, but in version 16 simply closing the Inspector will get rid of it. FileMaker remembers that when you switch
    back and forth between modes. It does not remember it when you Quit
    FileMaker and re-open the database, but at least it's a one-off
    keypress / mouse click.

    The only real problem is that you may find some things can now only be
    done via the silly Inspector window.

    Helpful Harry :o)

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