Themed Color Palettes for Mac

Earlier this year I mentioned a method for sharing color palettes on a Mac, useful if you have multiple developers working on a project and you need to keep everyone on the same color scheme.

Recently on Twitter someone posted a link to Mondrianum (FREE from Lithoglyph).  I’m not a habitual downloader of the latest/greatest, but this was such a simple, elegant and useful tool that I thought I’d share – I think this thing is great.

Essentially it pulls content from the Adobe Kuler online community into the Mac system-wide color picker, making the color themes available in ANY Mac app that uses the system color picker (Which FileMaker does).

Once you’ve installed it, you can select any color theme and either view it online, or add it as a new Apple Color List.

If you add it as a color list, then you’ll have a new Color List in your dropdown menu in your Palette tab, and can start playing around.  Download it now, and have fun!

Free FileMaker Graphics Pack for any qualifying FileMaker 10 product

Just a heads-up: purchase a copy of FileMaker 10 (or 10 Advanced/Server/Server Advanced) between now and September 18, register your purchase, and you’ll get a free download link to the FileMaker Graphics Pack, a file stuffed with more than 1,000 icons to give your apps a more polished look and feel.

Details here: http://www.filemakeroffer.com/graphicspack/

Tips and Tricks: Arbitrarily Navigating an Array of Fields in FMP 10

To follow up with the presentation from Tuesday night, here is the first of half a dozen or so posts going into more detail on my demo files.

First up, navigating an array of fields in an arbitrary order (as opposed to tab order).

First, a little setup. To make this work you need to give layout object names to all the fields in the array. I just chose array01, array02, etc. so we can do some simple math to find out which object to go to.

Be sure and name and or number all your layout objects.

When Filemaker allows us to go to field by name, this solution will be a little more elegant, for now you just need to name the layout objects and your field names can be arbitrary.

More after the jump: