To fix this, you can save your local styles to the theme’s style, or create a new style for that object, and save it to the theme. If you have a lot of local styles, this can negatively impact the performance of your layout. This is important, because FileMaker has to do additional processing for each locally styled object on the layout. Once you make a change to an attribute of an object on a layout, that object is considered to be “locally styled.” Local styles are specific to an object. If you don’t make any changes to the theme’s styles, then the theme’s default values are used and the objects are rendered very quickly, without additional processing. For any given theme, these attributes have been predefined for each object type, as “styles.” A collection of styles make up a theme. For example, a line object clearly has fewer attributes than a button (which might have attributes describing the hover and in focus states as well as the normal state). ![]() ![]() Some objects have many attributes, and some have fewer. How themes and styles workĮvery object has attributes that can be assigned to it. By defining custom themes and styles, you have the potential to revolutionize your workflow, create a more consistent look from layout to layout, and easily change the look of individual elements across all layouts in a solution. Themes and styles are one of the most useful design tools FileMaker has provided in recent versions. ![]() If you haven’t started using themes and styles yet in your FileMaker development, you should! This article consolidates information from Andrew Paulsen, Adam Ward, and Bob Shockey, presented in sessions at the 2014 FileMaker Developer’s Conference in San Antonio, Texas.
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