40 FileMaker Pro Advanced Development Guide
Specifying default values for themes
FileMaker Pro and FileMaker Pro Advanced use default values to
replace attributes that are invalid or missing. For each theme listed in
a theme file, you can specify whether the default values are
determined by the current layout settings, which change when a user
changes them, or by standard layout values, which are the same values
that FileMaker uses when creating a file for the first time.
<THEMEDEFAULT VALUE=”CURRENT”/>
<THEMEDEFAULT VALUE=”STANDARD”/>
If you don’t specify a value for the THEMEDEFAULT element in the
theme, FileMaker
Pro Advanced will use standard layout values by
default.
Using values for patterns and colors
The values for the patterns in the FileMaker Pro and FileMaker Pro
Advanced pattern palette are numbered consecutively, starting with
the top row and counting from left to right, where the value for the
pattern in the top left corner is 1. Five patterns in the first row can also
be defined with words: NONE (= 1), SOLID (= 2), DKGRAY (= 6),
GRAY (= 7), and LTGRAY (= 8).
Note The first pattern (value = 1) is transparent and the second pattern
(value = 2) is solid. For objects with a color fill, be sure to use the solid
pattern.
Themes use 6-digit color hexadecimal (hex) values to describe colors
(for example, #CC9966), which can be found in most graphics
programs that use a color palette.
Themes should use web-safe colors for databases that will be accessed
by multiple platforms, displayed on monitors with varying
resolutions, or displayed on a network. However, when your databases
will be displayed on a single platform or at a high resolution, the full
RGB color spectrum gives you a much larger and richer color set.
The FileMaker Pro and FileMaker Pro Advanced color palette
contains only web-safe colors. For information on using the color
palette, see Help. For more information about using patterns and
colors in a layout, see Help.
Pattern attribute values begin at the top left corner of the fill pattern palette
with number 1 and end at the bottom right corner with number 64
2 3 4 5 6 7 81
57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64
