Page is working great...there is one issue, I am developing things like a full screen app (such as a kiosk) and using a remote viewer (on the PC) to work on the actual system which is running page. The biggest headache is the app fills the entire screen(as it should), leaving no room for the page toolbars (attributes, widget toobar, etc). What page needs is a way for the graphics layout development area (area of page where you place graphics objects) to be zoomed out (say 75% or 50%), so that during layout it fits well within the page editor and can be surrounded by the page meus. When the designed layout is run, of course, it fills the entire screen, as designed. I looked at trying to increase the screen resolution to temporarily force the graphics layout to use a smaller parentage of the total available area. Unfortunately the app is using the full available resolution.
I do work around this by dragging the working frame so it is sort of half-off the screen, giving some room for the page menus, but it is a constant dragging here & there that would be great to avoid.
One possibility is to do your GUI design using a smaller toplevel window in PAGE so you can see and use the PAGE windows and the when put code in the main function of the support module to set the root attribute to "fullscreen". See the fullscreen example in distribution, probably in "page/examples/fullscreen".
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2022-05-04
Thanks Don! I'm up to my ears in the middle of a new layout, so I'll give your approach a try next time. Two questions:
Will the fullscreen enlargement cause any layout elements to shift around (that is differ from the view in the smaller layout).
Will the fullscreen enlargement cause the graphics to look "raggedy", due to zooming from a lower layout resolution (such as adding an icon as a button background)? Note my proposal was the opposite...take a high resolution layout and display it reduced during the layout process, so as to take less room on the page "canvas".
It would be great if we could use the ctrl+scrollwheel to zoom in and out of the layout area. I realize this is a BIG challenge, perhaps not even possible. With Word you can do this to the editing area & make your document size as small as a dot in Word or so big that a few text letters of the doc fill the entire editing area. In either case the doc itself remains 8.5x11 in actual size. ...similar idea in page.
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Page is working great...there is one issue, I am developing things like a full screen app (such as a kiosk) and using a remote viewer (on the PC) to work on the actual system which is running page. The biggest headache is the app fills the entire screen(as it should), leaving no room for the page toolbars (attributes, widget toobar, etc). What page needs is a way for the graphics layout development area (area of page where you place graphics objects) to be zoomed out (say 75% or 50%), so that during layout it fits well within the page editor and can be surrounded by the page meus. When the designed layout is run, of course, it fills the entire screen, as designed. I looked at trying to increase the screen resolution to temporarily force the graphics layout to use a smaller parentage of the total available area. Unfortunately the app is using the full available resolution.
I do work around this by dragging the working frame so it is sort of half-off the screen, giving some room for the page menus, but it is a constant dragging here & there that would be great to avoid.
I hope this description makes sense.
One possibility is to do your GUI design using a smaller toplevel window in PAGE so you can see and use the PAGE windows and the when put code in the main function of the support module to set the root attribute to "fullscreen". See the fullscreen example in distribution, probably in "page/examples/fullscreen".
Thanks Don! I'm up to my ears in the middle of a new layout, so I'll give your approach a try next time. Two questions:
Will the fullscreen enlargement cause any layout elements to shift around (that is differ from the view in the smaller layout).
Will the fullscreen enlargement cause the graphics to look "raggedy", due to zooming from a lower layout resolution (such as adding an icon as a button background)? Note my proposal was the opposite...take a high resolution layout and display it reduced during the layout process, so as to take less room on the page "canvas".
It would be great if we could use the ctrl+scrollwheel to zoom in and out of the layout area. I realize this is a BIG challenge, perhaps not even possible. With Word you can do this to the editing area & make your document size as small as a dot in Word or so big that a few text letters of the doc fill the entire editing area. In either case the doc itself remains 8.5x11 in actual size. ...similar idea in page.