"Clean" behaviour of pop-up lists in FileMaker Pro

"Clean" behaviour of pop-up lists in FileMaker Pro

You might have experienced the not-so-ideal behaviour of a pop-up list not closing automatically after choosing an item. The list remains open and the user has to additionally click outside of the list to close and confirm the item. The behaviour is very non-intuitive.

With a simple trick you can provide the "good", clean behaviour:

Disallow field input in Layout, Field format.
Attach a script to the field:

If ["1<>0"]
     Goto field [Select/perform; "fieldname"]
End if

Well, the "If" statement is of course non-sensical. You could use any other calculation that is "always true" but somehow this seems to do the trick.

The result of this "treatment" are nice and clean pop-up lists.

I do not know whether FMP under Mac has the same problem behaviour. You might tell me.

Good luck!

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