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Working with layout themes

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Working with layout themes

- In the upcoming movies in this chapter, we're going to be looking at creating new layouts in our solution using the file maker layout builder. One of the options we'll see when we build this is the ability to select a theme. Before I build some layouts, I wanted to take a moment to first talk about themes. Themes help create visually attractive user interfaces by providing consistent styles for things like buttons, fields, backgrounds and other objects on your layout. Themes are really a collection of a bunch of different styles. A style allows you to easily define and apply consistent formatting to objects on a single layout or across all sorts of layouts. So a theme is made up of many different styles. Styles are part of the overall layout theme. Within the theme, each type of layout object may have its own available style. You can edit existing themes as well as create new styles. Utilizing a consistent theme and style throughout your solution can make updating the look and feel…

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