FileMaker Snake game - a FM 10 Demonstration

When I first started looking at FM10's new functions (Trigger, timer, etc), I wanted to create a demo, in which I can implement almost all of these new features.

I was currently also looking at my old floppy disks, and found my snake game I wrote in Turbo Pascal when I was a small kid, and thought why not recreate it in FileMaker?

It could demonstrate layout triggers (OnLayoutKeyStroke), Timers (speed of the game)

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Heres is what I came up with:

The main layout is a repeating field container (300 repetitions actually), arranged.

The repeating field uses a global variable and conditional formatting to show the snake and the treasure (which is set by a custom function based on it's current repetition number).

Two colors are used, Green and White:

The Snake and Treasure positions are stored in global variables as a list (eg.: 10,12 11,12, etc), and are processed by the script.

The script names of the demo file shows what they do exactly, you could easily figure them out.

The layout has a script trigger, which is to check for keyboard input, so we can move the snake.

This is a FM10 demo, which you can download from here . (right click- save as)

Note1: I did't spend too much time on optimizing this, making it prettier, etc, it's up to you. This is just a demo file, to demonstrate some of FileMaker 10's new features.

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