Monkeybread Software - MBS FileMaker Plugin: TextView.CreateOnPopoverWithControl

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TextView.CreateOnPopoverWithControl

Creates a new text view which covers the whole window.

Component	Version	macOS	Windows	Server	FileMaker Cloud	FileMaker iOS SDK
TextView	9.2	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes

MBS( "TextView.CreateOnPopoverWithControl"; WindowRef; Popover Name; ControlName { ; DX; DY } ) More

Parameters

Parameter Description Example value

WindowRef Window Reference is the unique OS level window ID. You can obtain this by using the Window.FindByTitle or Window.FindByIndex functions. Pass zero to access the frontmost window. 0

Popover Name The name of the popover to look for on the window. "MyPopover"

ControlName The name of the control on your FileMaker form. For example "mymedia" if you assign this name to a media field. This is not the name of the field in the database! "mymedia"

DX Optional
A delta to move text view more to left or right. 0

DY Optional
A delta to move text view more to top or bottom. 0

Parameter	Description	Example value
WindowRef	Window Reference is the unique OS level window ID. You can obtain this by using the Window.FindByTitle or Window.FindByIndex functions. Pass zero to access the frontmost window.	0
Popover Name	The name of the popover to look for on the window.	"MyPopover"
ControlName	The name of the control on your FileMaker form. For example "mymedia" if you assign this name to a media field. This is not the name of the field in the database!	"mymedia"
DX	Optional A delta to move text view more to left or right.	0
DY	Optional A delta to move text view more to top or bottom.	0

Result

Returns text view reference number on success.

Description

Creates a new text view which covers the whole window.
Use TextView.Release later to destroy the text view.
Text view reference numbers are starting at 81000 and counting up for each new text view.

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MBS FileMaker Plugin, version 9.6pr2

Release notes

Version 10.0
- Changed DragDrop.CreateOnPopoverWithControl and TextView.CreateOnPopoverWithControl to return error when popover is not found.
- Changed DragDrop.CreateWithControl, DragDrop.CreateOnPopoverWithControl, TextView.CreateWithControl, TextView.SetFrameWithControl and TextView.CreateOnPopoverWithControl to return error when control is not found.

Created 15th April 2019, last changed 15th April 2019

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