I love FileMaker 13’s new style tools! The tools make creating and maintaining a consistent theme style for a project, incredibly simple. After attending the FileMaker DevCon session, Layouts: Under the Hood, I love them even more. A tool that I’ve been using lately, to aid in creating custom themes for our clients, is the built in Mac OS X Color Picker, specifically the color palette tab. The Mac OS X Color Picker’s color palette tab allows you to add specifically-picked colors to a saved list. Using this, I can take a list of branded colors from a client, add them to a palette, and then start creating my FileMaker theme with the exact colors needed.
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To create a new palette with the built-in Mac OS X Color Picker:
You have a number of ways to save colors to the color palette.
With this tool, you can literally point the spyglass at the color you want to capture. For example, let’s grab the colors from the FileMaker website. With a new palette created called FileMaker Website, I’ll…
When you do this, your cursor will change to a spyglass with a crosshair in the lens. You can hover over the color you want to select on the website. Once you have the color you want, you can click to capture it in your color picker.
A double-click of the color’s title will allow you to change its name. This will allow you to quickly walk through an image to build a palette which you can in turn use to create your theme.
A free plugin called Hex Color Picker will allow you to specify hexadecimal values for specific colors.
This way, you don’t need to bring up FileMaker Pro to add colors to your palette. This is particularly helpful if you do development in other languages or platforms.
The gear icon in the palette tab allows you to Open pre-existing palettes. This imports the palette into your local palette list. Unfortunately, the Mac OS X Color Picker doesn’t give an easy way to export a palette you’ve built, to pass it on to someone else. Luckily for us, we’re developers; so, we like getting our hands dirty! 😉 Here’s a work-around: The palettes are stored in your local folder: ~/Library/Colors
You can get to the folder by either:
open ~/Library/Colors/
~/Library/Colors/
Once in the folder, you’ll see a list of .clr files. These are your palettes. You can pass a copy of these files to someone else and they can use the above mentioned Open option in the color palette to import your palette.
One of the best reasons to use the built-in Mac OS X Color Picker, is that the palettes are available in any application that uses the built-in color picker. This means, if you like to use a tool like Omnigraffle to do layout wire framing, you can use the exact colors from your palette. Christopher Schmitz is a FileMaker 13 Certified Developer at Skeleton Key. About Skeleton KeySkeleton Key helps turn complex, complicated, and outdated systems into true information platforms. Our team of consultants and developers do this by developing custom-fit software tools and reporting dashboards that help businesses find, use, and understand their data, freeing them to focus on and grow their core business. In addition to custom databases and applications, we also provide training and coaching for getting the most out of your existing systems and understanding your unruly data. Skeleton Key is an open-book management company and active player of the Great Game of Business.
These advanced steps are primarily for system administrators and others who are familiar with the command line. You don't need a bootable installer to upgrade macOS or reinstall macOS, but it can be useful when you want to install on multiple computers without downloading the installer each time.
MyVolume
in these commands with the name of your volume.Big Sur:*
Catalina:*
Mojave:*
High Sierra:*
El Capitan:
* If your Mac is using macOS Sierra or earlier, include the --applicationpath
argument and installer path, similar to the way this is done in the command for El Capitan.
After typing the command:
Y
to confirm that you want to erase the volume, then press Return. Terminal shows the progress as the volume is erased.Determine whether you're using a Mac with Apple silicon, then follow the appropriate steps:
A bootable installer doesn't download macOS from the internet, but it does require an internet connection to get firmware and other information specific to the Mac model.
For information about the createinstallmedia
command and the arguments you can use with it, make sure that the macOS installer is in your Applications folder, then enter the appropriate path in Terminal: