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Arranging and aligning layout objects

Arranging and aligning layout objects - FileMaker Pro Tutorial

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Arranging and aligning layout objects

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- [Narrator] Arranging and aligning all the different objects on your layout to the users when they're interacting with your layouts. For example, this is a extreme use case, but you see that we've got fields and labels all over the place, and this can be very difficult for users to interact with. So there's some tools that we can find in Layout Mode, specifically over here, in our Inspector, on the right hand side. Of course, you can toggle the Inspector if you don't see it, which is called Position, and in the middle we see Arrange and Align. So the first thing that really jumps out at us here is that we got all these different fields So the first thing I can show you is By default, you'll notice that by simply moving an object in Layout Mode, we see these blue guidelines appear. These are called Dynamic Guides. This allows me to line up to an invisible left edge, or to space the distance between my fields appropriately. And all of that is done by default, using Dynamic Guides. you…

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