Tony White Designs releases their BaseElements Toolkit
Tony White Designs has released a very nifty addition to BaseElements that allows you to link to your FileMaker solution from within BaseElements and vice versa. You can be looking at a script or layout in BaseElements and click a button to take you to the exact script or layout in your solution. It's a great way to work within BaseElements and make changes on the fly in your live solution, without navigating through all of the dialogs to find your place.
If you're using BaseElements and you're on a mac (it requires applescript to work), you can download his FileMaker <-> BaseElements Toolkit which is just one of the useful pieces of code on his freebies page.
There are some useful videos there to explain how it all works, it makes for a great demo. Thanks to Tony for creating this and making it free for the FileMaker Developer community.
If you have any questions or feedback about it, feel free to leave a comment below.
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If you want to send me a private note, you can do so at my site.
Thanks.
Tony White
installation of FileMaker <--> Base Elements Toolkit
The videos suggest that installation of the package is totally evident to anyone so it is not necessary to mention the procedure. This does not work for me (and probable for many others too).
I copied the scripts to the library/scripts folder, and the shortcuts to the Library/QuicKeys/Shortcuts folder of my home directory. But I get no floating window, and I have no clue how to get the package running. I cannot use the package in any way now.
What should I do to get the package running? A more explicit installation guide on the website would be helpful for many users.
The floating window is a QuicKeys Toolbar
When you unzip the zip file you will see 3 sub folders (Scripts, Shortcuts and Toolbars).
The file that is in the Toolbars folder goes here:
~/Library/QuicKeys/Toolbars (~ means user home directory)
1) Quit QuicKeys
2) Install file(s)
3) Go to the QuicKeys icon in the menu bar (top right)
4) You should see the toolbar under the Toolbar sub menu
More installation instructions are on video "FM_to_BaseElem_v1" starting at 5:00
Let us know if that works for you either way. Thanks.
Installation of FileMaker <--> Base Eelements Toolkit
I indeed forgot the toolbars files. Now I get the toolbar on my screen.
Thanks.