• Navigation, Menus, Keyboard Shortcuts
  • The App Menu
    • Standard Keyboard Shortcuts
    • Take control / Take command
  • Navigation
    • Go home / Get Back
  • fmWorkMate Killer Keys

Navigation, Menus, Keyboard Shortcuts

Feel at home in all of MrWatson’s tools

MrWatson’s tools are all pressed from the same mould. That means

once you know one tool, you quickly feel at home in all of them!

The most common features are described here.

The App Menu

Each tool has an «App» menu, containing the most important functions of the tool:

You’ll probably recognise the app menu as the traditional FileMaker Script menu, home to the traditional script shortcut keys (and variations thereof).

Standard Keyboard Shortcuts

These are the standard keyboard shortcuts in MrWatson’s tools.

⌘1

Home / Go Back / Continue

⌘2–⌘8

The most important functions in the tool.

⌘9

Open the settings.

⌘0

Maximize/minimize/reset the window (on the Window menu).

Take control / Take command

MrWatson’s Tools and documentation take a Mac-first approach, and thus keyboard shortcuts are shown for the Mac platform - with the ⌘ command key.

That means, of course - unless the windows shortcut is completely different & separately documented -

windows users will need to use the ⌃ ctrl key instead of the ⌘ command key.

See MrWatson’s Keyboard Shortcut Cheatsheet for more keyboard shortcuts and tricks.

Navigation

Navigation in MrWatson’s tools is hierarchical.

Go home / Get Back

That means wherever you are in the tools you can go back (towards) home in any of these ways:

⌘1

Press ⌘1

App Menu > Home

Select Home from the App Menu

Click the mini back button in the top left of the layout

Click the logo in the top left of the layout

fmWorkMate Killer Keys

fmWorkMate is optimised for speed and productivity so that (for most tools)…

the same key is used to open the tool as to trigger the tool’s main function

In other words from fmWorkMate you can just press a key twice to open and use the tool:

⌘2 + ⌘2

Open fmCheckmate and Convert the Clipboard

⌘3 + ⌘3

Open fmLogAnalyser and Reload the Log

⌘4 + ⌘4

Open fmDBAnalyser and Analyse Relationships

⌘5 + ⌘5

Open fmSyntaxColorizer and Colorize your Code

⌘6 + ⌘6

Open fmTextConverter and FM → Convert → FM (convert FileMaker objects on the clipboard)

⌘7 + ⌘7

Open fmTextDiff and Paste Text and Diff automatically

⌘8 + ⌘8

Open fmTextMultiplier and FM → Multiply → FM
(multiply the FileMaker objects on the clipboard)