MenuControl 3 for FileMaker
Product Info
The Next Generation of FileMaker Menu Manipulation For Main, Context and Pop-Up Menus
MenuControl enables you to create your very own main menus, context and pop-up menus in FileMaker using your scripts and default FileMaker menu items. Develop user-friendly and secure FileMaker solutions with unsurpassed ease and flexibility! Disable file window control buttons (minimize, maximize, close). MenuControl 3 works with FileMaker 5-10 on Windows and Mac OS.
MenuControl enables you to design custom menus for FileMaker 7 and earlier. For FileMaker 8-10 Advanced developers MenuControl provides significant advantages over the "custom menu" feature of FileMaker.
Why Use MenuControl with FileMaker 8-10
Already using FileMaker 8/9 or planning to upgrade soon? See the table below to learn why MenuControl is still developers' preferred choice over the "custom menu" feature that comes with FileMaker 8/9 Advanced.
Compare Features
| Feature | MC3 | FM 5-7 | FM 8-10 |
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| Customized cross-platform FileMaker main menus |  |
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| Modify the default FileMaker menu | |
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| Intuitive MenuComposer - easily create custom menus via point & click | |
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| Customize context menus for fields, layouts or files | |
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| Create Pop-up menus with cascading sub-menus | |
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| Change specific menu items on the fly (incl. disable/enable) | |
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| Modify all menus and items (incl. Quit/Exit and the application menu) | |
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| Disable file window control buttons (minimize, maximize, close) | |
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| Install menus centrally for all layouts or even all files | |
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| Assign all relevant keyboard shortcuts to menu items (incl. F-keys) | |
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| Remove all FileMaker menu items and create a Thin Client interface | |
A Whole Suite of Powerful Menu Functions
Replace the default FileMaker menu with your own menu items - custom menu items trigger your own scripts. Design your own menu structures including sub menus.
Include only those menu items that are relevant to your solution.
Combine relevant default FileMaker menu items and your own scripts within the same menu.
Assign keyboard shortcuts to all of your menu items. Change the shortcuts of default FileMaker menu items.
MenuControl also enables you to create submenus. Creating clean and professional FileMaker user interfaces becomes a snap.
Create custom context (right-click) menus and include default FileMaker menu items or your scripts. Several context menus can be present at the same time, i.e. for different fields.
Show custom pop-up menus at a specific location in the layout or at the current cursor position. Unlike FileMaker’s default pop-up menus MenuControl pop-up menus can trigger scripts and support sub menu structures.
Customize your menus automatically according to the situation. You can add/remove and enable/disable any menu item.
The FileMaker toolbars can be selectively disabled. You can hide and show the Standard as well as the Text Formatting toolbars even under FileMaker 6/5.
The close button and other file window control buttons can be disabled. A Thin Client feature enables you to remove all menus items. Set Alternative Menus to replaces the default FileMaker main and context menu for all FileMaker files on a specific machine.
Create your menus with the help of the MenuComposer, it's as easy as point & click.
MenuControl supports FileMaker 8, 7, 6 and 5 on Windows and Mac OS.
The MenuControl download package consists of two major items:
1. The MenuComposer is a standalone application that enables you to compose your menus using the scripts of your FileMaker solution or default FileMaker menus items via point & click.
2. The MenuControl FileMaker Plug-In sets and manages custom menus in FileMaker.
After extracting all files, read the file Read First for further information.
