Ajax opened this issue on Jan 19, 2007 · 42 posts
Ajax posted Sun, 15 April 2007 at 4:49 PM
Quote - Oh! thought of something else.. will we be able to size the application to full screen? On my 1600x1200 screen here, I'm loosing about 1/4-1/2 of my available screen realestate available
Resizing works really well for forms that consist of a main document window and a few toolbars, but for something like EPU, where there are over 250 separate buttons, text boxes, check boxes, dropdowns etc and no central document area, it's not really practical.
I have to try to keep the form small enough to be sure it will fit on the screen of most Poser users. With version 1, I figured 800 by 600 was probably the minimum screen size you could expect to be commonly used by Poser users. These days I think it's reasonable to assume almost everybody has at least a 1024 by 768 screen res, so I've increased the form size up to 1000 by 750, which seems to be big enough to comfortably fit everything it needs to at the moment.
That leaves unused screen real estate for people with higer res screens, but I'm not really sure how I could use that real estate anyway. The list boxes are about the only thing I could usefully make bigger and most of those have more space in the new layout anyway. Also, a lot of the new tools that pop up in separate windows (eg. hierarchy selector, dial group tool, Value Op Key editor) are resizeable, so where I can see a need for working space, I've tried to meet it with a separate window.
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