Re: [foxboro] FoxView - FoxDraw using 16:9 or 16:10 aspect ratios - any progress?
- From: Neil Martin <neil_martin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:31:58 -0500
With the newer versions of I/A/FoxView, the user will be able to run some
sort of convert utility on the Foxview graphics to convert them to wide
screen. As I understand it, it won't actually change the layout of the
configured graphic objects, so there should be no worries about what the
converter does to the graphic. I believe it will place the original
graphic objects in the center of the converted graphic in their original
aspect arrangement, which will now leave additional blank space on the
sides of the graphic. The DCS support staff can later modify the graphic
to rearrange the objects to provide better spacing them, or they will have
room to add additional objects in the future. I am not sure, but we may
be able to specify whether the original objects are placed in the center
of the converted graphic, or to one side or the other.
Conroe & Dayton , TX.
Conroe ph) 936-760-6205
Dayton ph) 936-257-4212
pager) 936-522-0052
"Russ Kaiser" <russ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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[foxboro] FoxView - FoxDraw using 16:9 or 16:10 aspect ratios - any
progress?
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
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>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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