[foxboro] FoxView - FoxDraw using 16:9 or 16:10 aspect ratios - any progress?
- From: "Russ Kaiser" <russ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 11:40:33 -0400
I haven't been too attentive for the last year. Has there been any progress
for the support of truly utilizing wide screen displays using
FoxView/FoxDraw?
Russ
>-----Original Message-----
>From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Corey R Clingo
>Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2012 11:46 AM
>To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [foxboro] 23" widescreen monitor announcement -
>customer request
>
>Just got this today: "I/A Series Customer Notification
>2012014abi: 23-Inch Flat panel Monitor for Unix and Windows"
>Evidently, Foxboro is introducing a widescreen monitor, and apparently
>(finally!) modifying Foxview to somehow take advantage of it
>(maybe someone from Foxboro can comment on this).
>
>OK, so here's my problem. Instead of using an aspect ratio
>that most power users of PCs use (16:10 or 1920x1200), they
>chose one that people who watch DVDs on their computers use
>(16:9 or 1920x1080). I know those "full-HD" ones are more
>popular, and cheaper, but the fact that I can no longer get a
>laptop with a 1920x1200 resolution drives me up a wall**; that
>extra vertical screen space is quite helpful in many
>applications. In addition, the so-called high-performance HMIs
>tend to use every available pixel on a screen, so the more the better.
>
>Now, Foxboro, if you are going to go to the effort of
>modifying Foxview, please DO IT RIGHT and make it so the
>viewable area/workspace is configurable (asymmetric
>auto-scaling does NOT count), rather than being fixed to one
>or two particular workspace sizes. Maybe that is the plan, but
>I didn't glean that from the announcement. At least that way
>we can substitute our own 1920x1200, or 2560x1600, or whatever
>monitors if the el-cheapo standard 1920x1080s won't do for us.
>While you're at it, I'd love it if you would do this with the
>Alarm Managers as well.
>
>OK, end of my rant. How do the rest of you guys feel about this?
>
>Corey
>
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