I attended my first Filemaker user group the other night. One of the questions that came up was how do I check the screen orientation on the iPad. I came up with a quick little solution, not the most elegant but it works.
Layout anchors work great and make our filemaker layout resize to the  orientation of our device. So then why do we need to be able to discover the orientation of our device? Lets take a simple checklist iPad app as an example in portrait mode, the ipad’s interface resembles a clipboard.
However if a user turns the device to landscape there is no reason to waste that newly acquired horizontal space. Most apps have an entirely different interface to enhance the user experience. If only layout anchors are used, we as developers, are missing out on a very big UI opportunity.
Below is a link to an example file which helps determine the orientation in filemaker. (Hint Get ( WindowContentWidth ) )
http://nebsfunworld.com/images/uploads/orientation.fp7_.zip
sorry its not a .fp7, having an issue with the site.
This layout is great. Do you have a sample file for it?
By: Tony Martinez on November 7, 2010
at 6:33 PM
This layout was not created by me, just an example.
By: jeffengland on November 8, 2010
at 2:04 PM