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There are other things to consider when you're considering how much space you actually have. You have your allow toolbars, which we just covered. We have our status area. But there's some things we haven't covered; such as what about the dock or the taskbar? So you have the dock on Macintosh and you have the taskbar in Windows. Now, mine happens to be hidden. What if it's showing or what if it's down here or wherever, it's on the left? You need to accommodate that and make sure that you figure that into your whole design of your layout. And then you also have to consider on Windows your status area. It's a little help area that appears right above the scroll bars right here and you can't get rid of it through scripts. You can get rid of it manually by going up to the view menu and on windows, since you don't have that feature on the Macintosh, it'll show up between these two items; toolbars and status area and you can check or uncheck it and it'll disappear and appear. But they're something you can't control so you really have to figure it's going to be there or it could be turned on and make sure that your layout will accommodate that; that your screen real estate will accommodate that. You also have to, on Windows, consider whether you have an application window or not; whether it's maximized or not. On the Macintosh you don't have that but on Windows you have this window around your file. It's your application window and it could be maximized or not maximized. If it's maximized, there's no scroll bar as you get more space. If it's not maximized, well, then you have scrollbars that take some more space away from what you can do with your screen real estate. So you've got to consider all these things and test out the size of your interface before you get too far with it. You don't want to apply your interface to a hundred layouts and then go, oh my goodness, I didn't think about this! What you really need to do is design one layout and test it out in lots of different configurations and make sure it's going to show up no matter what and not have scrollbars. So there are a lot of things to consider and the main objective here is not to get scrollbars. You don't want to have these scrollbars like I showed you over here so that people have to scroll to see the information. It just look unprofessional and it can be confusing because people won't see that information over there. Let's remind you, again, how to resize the status area and hide the toolbars by working with the contacts, but not the contact section, since we've already added that script. But let's work on the zips. Because you can see right now, when we show zips, the toolbars come up. Well, we really shouldn't have that happen and you can see what happens actually to this solution right here and see that it makes it smaller and now there's a scrollbar and we can certainly fix it, but as soon as we go back to zips, well, then we got the same situation. It, it messes it up back there. So we really should have an open script here as well. Very easy to do. We'll click new, call it open and we want our allow toolbars. It's down here in the miscellaneous section. We'll move that. We want it off. And then we're also going to hide the status area. There we go. Move that over. And we will hide and lock it. Now, we could do what we did as an example with the if statement and check what privilege set name is and whether it's full access or something fancier. But this is the basics you need to do right here and you really should have this in every open script, at least these steps right here. So we'll go ahead and close this, save that. Don't really need to display into the scripts menu, so we'll close that. And then we make sure that we go file, file options and make sure that that script runs on open. And so now, next time we open this up, and we'll demonstrate this. We'll close this and we'll also close our contact manager. Then I'll hide FileMaker Pro here and then we'll go ahead and launch the contacts. Take a little second here. And show window, zips, and you'll see that now it's hidden because that ran on open and that was because we didn't let it get open by the relationships. It was able to be opened with brackets around it. If you remember, when we looked up here it didn't have brackets, or it's down here now, but that's because, just to remind you, inside your contacts on the open script here, we said open file and when we said open file, and even though we said open it as hidden as you can see there, it opened that file and because we did it that way, it ran that open script. If we had just let it open because the relationship used it, which would happen in this case by typing in the zip code here and modifying this field, it would have opened up hidden, as well as in brackets and it wouldn't have run that open script. So these are essential parts if you have two files or more in your solution. You're going to want to make sure those open scripts run and so you want to make sure you use that open file on the initial launching file that you're going to be using.