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Using guides, arranging, aligning, grouping, and locking layout objects - FileMaker Pro Tutorial
From the course: FileMaker Pro 14 Essential Training
Using guides, arranging, aligning, grouping, and locking layout objects
- Layout objects are the building blocks of layouts. Everything you can place on a layout, be it a field, an image, a portal, a label, whatever it is, they're all considered objects, and objects can be manipulated on layouts in order to give a nice clean professional look. In layout mode, you get a couple of tools available to you to be able to manipulate these objects, most of them are found in the Inspector. We're gonna concentrate on a group of tools that are found under the Position Tab in the Arrange and Align Section. First I'm gonna talk about Group, which you see down here on this bottom row. The idea of grouping layout objects together is something that you're gonna find that you'll end up needing at some point. Really what that means is you can grab multiple objects, and I can grab multiple objects either by selecting them and holding down the Shift key like this, or a more common practice is to drag my cursor until I touch all the ones that I want to select and now I've got…
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Using guides, arranging, aligning, grouping, and locking layout objects12m 5s
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Applying themes to layouts6m 35s
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Working with shapes in your layouts6m 19s
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Applying screen stencils4m 2s
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Working with images and icons on your layouts5m 58s
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Applying gradients2m 43s
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Formatting fields and applying field attributes7m 51s
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Understanding states7m 47s
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Setting field behaviors4m 47s
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Using the tab control feature12m 38s
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Using slide controls in your layouts8m 46s
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Working with popovers in your layouts8m 16s
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Setting the tab order4m 9s
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Learning how to conditionally hide layout objects6m 36s
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