Re: [foxboro] Next Foxview issues

Stan,

In your environment file, use the command "display_bar off" and you will loose
the button bar.  Use the command "status_bar off" to lose the status bar on the
bottom.  You can also remove "alarm_bar", "message_bar" and "time_date_bar" if
desired.  

If you want to let the operators decide which way is best, have two
environments, one with the bars and one without.  Alternatively, because you can
these are normal display commands, you can execute them from foxview to
dynamically turn the bars on or off.

Regards,

Kevin FitzGerrell
Carter Holt Harvey, Ltd.
+64 27 460 9994
 
Quoting stan <stanb@xxxxxxxxx>:

> In the ongoing effort to manage to get to a position where we can
> migrate
> existing systems from Display manager to Foxview, Foxboro has been able
> to
> fix (or is going to fix) our 2 biggest "show stoppers".
> 
> 1. Time change issues (BTW how does this work, here appears to now be a
> dst
> process running on those machines)?
> 
> 2. Fonts (Not done, but looks like it will be done).
> 
> This si good news.
> 
> Now the bad news, I think I have just found "show stopper No. 3", at
> least
> for us. We have converted some graphics and shown them to various
> people.
> The overwhelming response has been that they are "to small". We loose a
> significant amount of screen real estate to the "decorations" that
> Foxview
> brings with it. 
> 
> Would it be possible to make it configurable to remove (in order of
> most
> needed to remove to least)
> 
> The area on the left of the screen, the bottom and top areas?
> 
> We looked at removing all the "buttons" on the bottom of our exiting
> graphics, and replacing them with the buttons on the left of the screen
> in
> Foxview, but this pretty much requires rethinking the graphics from
> scratch. It would be really nice if Foxview had a "legacy" mode, that
> did
> not use all this extra real estate.
> 
> I can see where this new way of doing things can be sued well in new
> from
> scratch systems, but I'm having big trouble with the conversion of
> existing
> systems.
> 
> Comments?
> 
> 
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