There's a wide variety of tools I've used over the years. Unfortunately, as Apple has locked down the OS, even things like this cool Photoshop-like picker is harder to enable. github.com/viktorstrate/color-picker-plus
Is it possible to use the custom function on borders/backgrounds etc? Example: I have a title that's at the top of each 'section' that should have a background color dependent on the layout table, the box has a 2px border at the top that is a darker variant of the color.
Unfortunately, the degree of programatic control over UI coloring is not quite there for lines and backgrounds. There are some tricks ("hacks") you can do to vary background color (e.g. using a container field set to fill with a raster image to show the fill color - or - using a colored block char set to massive text size) - but, really, if you need maximum color control, then you may not be able to get exactly what you want. Short of using a Web Viewer, where you do get full control, but with unfortunate load flashing, you don't get the same things you get with other development environments in FileMaker.
Thanks Matt!!!
There used to be an iOS app that picked a number of colors from an image; 5 was it? Perhaps it was called Adobe KULR?
There's a wide variety of tools I've used over the years. Unfortunately, as Apple has locked down the OS, even things like this cool Photoshop-like picker is harder to enable. github.com/viktorstrate/color-picker-plus
Is it possible to use the custom function on borders/backgrounds etc? Example: I have a title that's at the top of each 'section' that should have a background color dependent on the layout table, the box has a 2px border at the top that is a darker variant of the color.
Unfortunately, the degree of programatic control over UI coloring is not quite there for lines and backgrounds. There are some tricks ("hacks") you can do to vary background color (e.g. using a container field set to fill with a raster image to show the fill color - or - using a colored block char set to massive text size) - but, really, if you need maximum color control, then you may not be able to get exactly what you want. Short of using a Web Viewer, where you do get full control, but with unfortunate load flashing, you don't get the same things you get with other development environments in FileMaker.
@@filemakermagazine Thanks. That's a shame. I was hoping for full context templates. That would have been slick.