Here we have highlighted in green an area that sits between the popover panel, and the popover button. There is a little gotcha to beware of here when it comes to the activated popover. So much like a sliding drawer, our tooltip on Clippy will be used to open the popover, and the layout overlay tooltip is used to close This will contain a tooltip that calls the HoverPopover custom function, with no parameter passed. A large object placed over the layout to close the popover.The popover panel which will have a nominated object name (in this case "ClipOne").We have placed this underneath clippy (more on this later). A layout object with a tooltip to initiate the popover.What you are looking at here is a screenshot of the demo file. The layout setup is very similar to sliding drawersīecause we are borrowing the same technique from sliding drawers, the layout setup for popovers is very similar. However we have introduced multi-window support in this articles demo file - the same technique could be back-applied to sliding drawers if need be. It would be much more important for sliding drawers however.
BASEELEMENTS PLUGIN FILE MODIFIED WINDOWS
Now, in reality tracking open popovers for multiple windows is a bit overkill for popovers. The benefit for us is this makes tracking open/closed popovers much easier - we don't have to know which popovers are open or closed at any given time (because only one can be open) we just need to know which one is open on a given window. FileMaker imposes a restriction on a layout that there can be only one open popover per layout per window. Popovers fortunately are a little simpler. If a user wished to have two drawers on a given layout, then they would have had to replicate the required functionality for the second drawer, hardly efficient! The demo was not built for multi-window, multi-layout, or even multi-panel within the same layout. In our sliding drawer article, we only dealt with a single sliding drawer on a single layout. If you have not read the the article on sliding drawers, it is recommended you check it out before reading this article, as we'll assume a knowledge of the technique for this article.ĭifferences between sliding drawers and popovers They are great for revealing additional information on a layout such as actions, information, checkboxes etc (just like a sliding drawer). Popovers are a new feature in FileMaker 13 and are like a balloon tooltip. In this article we take the technique and modify it to be suited toward opening and closing the popover object upon mouse-over.
This used a combination of a custom function, script, plugin and tooltips to allow the user to expand and collapse a sliding drawer control without the need for a mouse-click. In our last article, we introduced a generic technique that could be used to replicate a mouse-over effect.
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