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	<description>Cool tips for your FileMaker layouts.</description>
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		<title>Field control styles &#8211; Summary</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 14:12:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Spafford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, so this is the end of the series on Field Control Styles.
Here&#8217;s a quick summary of what you need to know when you are deciding what style to use:


If you want to enter data that has little or no repetition from one record to the next, then you need maximum flexibility. You should use [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Field control styles #6: Drop-down calendar</title>
		<link>http://fmlayoutmode.com/wp/?p=2991</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 13:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Spafford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before FileMaker 8, if you wanted to enter a date into a date field, there were two options:

You had to enter the numbers and slashes manually.
You had to pay a developer a few hours to create a pop-up window that had a calendar you could flip through to select dates.

When FileMaker 8 came out, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Show me your screenshots &#8212; Second submission</title>
		<link>http://fmlayoutmode.com/wp/?p=3056</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 14:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Spafford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is the second screenshot that Daniel Wood submitted for my request for your cool layouts.


Once again, you can click on the image to see it in its full-size glory. Here are Daniel&#8217;s answers to my questions:

Q: What platform was it developed on/for?
 A: Developed on Mac for Mac.
Q: What kind of company is this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Show me your screenshots &#8212; First submission</title>
		<link>http://fmlayoutmode.com/wp/?p=3011</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2011 16:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Spafford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So last week I had said I would love to post some screenshots of your proudest layouts. Daniel Wood (of FileMaker Weetbicks fame) took me at my word, and sent three screenshots right away. We&#8217;ll look at one of them today.


Click on the image to see it in its full-size glory. Here are Daniel&#8217;s answers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Show me your screenshots</title>
		<link>http://fmlayoutmode.com/wp/?p=2995</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Spafford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I post a technique on here, my main goal is to keep things as simple as possible &#8212; while demonstrating the technique as concisely as possible. Okay, I&#8217;m not always so concise.
As a result, I have shown you a pile of bare bones white layouts with not much on them.
But hey, this blog is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Field control styles #5: Radio button set</title>
		<link>http://fmlayoutmode.com/wp/?p=2953</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2011 19:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Spafford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll start out by quoting Wikipedia:
A radio button [...] is a type of graphical user interface element that allows the user to choose only one of a predefined set of options. They were named after the physical buttons used on older car radios to select preset stations &#8211; when one of the buttons was pressed, other buttons would pop out, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hexadecimal converter</title>
		<link>http://fmlayoutmode.com/wp/?p=2913</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 03:08:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Spafford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My fellow colour-challenged developers, I have found a fantastic tool!
Check out this Web site: Color Palette Generator

You just paste in the URL from an image you&#8217;ve found on the Web, and this site extracts a couple colour palettes for you. Too cool!
However, they give it to you in hexadecimal code. That&#8217;s great for Web developers, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Field control styles #4: Checkbox set</title>
		<link>http://fmlayoutmode.com/wp/?p=2882</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2011 14:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Spafford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, so we&#8217;ve worked our way through the first three field control styles: Edit boxes, Drop-down lists, and Pop-up menus. They all have particular strengths that sometimes make them the ideal entry method. Our next control style is the checkbox.
Let&#8217;s take a look at a checkbox field, and figure out when it should be used.

I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Field control styles #3: Pop-up menu</title>
		<link>http://fmlayoutmode.com/wp/?p=2843</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 15:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Spafford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last post, I discussed how drop-down lists can give your users some flexibility while entering data. But what if you don&#8217;t want them to have flexibility?
Fear not, fascists! We can suck the democracy right out of that field control style.

Allow me to introduce the pop-up menu:

If you&#8217;ll check out the billableVsProBono field above, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Field control styles #2: Drop-down list</title>
		<link>http://fmlayoutmode.com/wp/?p=2765</link>
		<comments>http://fmlayoutmode.com/wp/?p=2765#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 02:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Spafford</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In my  last post, we talked about leaving a field in its default control style: the Edit box. Why do we ever need anything more than that?
Well, if you&#8217;re always going to be entering one of a selection of values in that field, then it&#8217;s a shame to have to type them every time. When [...]]]></description>
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