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High resolution/multimonitor support

Alice3173

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Something that would be really convenient would be to allow us to have tabs open in separate windows and/or having multiple tabs visible at once rather than having to switch back and forth. In addition the ribbon interface is nice and it works but on high resolution monitors even the biggest menu doesn't take up half the screen.

Example: http://i.imgur.com/fFzSIW0.png

This is on a 2560x1440 monitor. There's a ton of wasted space here. Also as a side note it's kind of annoying when you click out of the program to something else then click back in and it switches to the home tab.
 
Are you aware you can collapse the ribbon bar? Click on the arrow just above the ribbon bar on the far right.
 
I think you might have misunderstood what I meant. I mean that it doesn't make optimal use of all the available space on such a high resolution monitor. For example something like an option that would combine some of the tabs such as the two different ones that seem to only be used for tables if that makes sense.
 
When you say "tabs such as the two different ones that seem to only be used for tables"... do you mean the left-hand side navigation lists, and the right-hand side list of links?

If so, the left-hand navigation pane has options for the display settings. This is actually a tree-control. The default is grouping similar topics into broad categories. On the "Manage" tab of the ribbon, there is a button for "Preferences". Controls for this are present, and this is the only option you can set. In addition, on the menu for that navigation pane (the wrench-and-hammer icon), you can select whether or not to show the content in "Nested Container Hierarchy". If you have use the Containing Topic (as I see you have), enabling this will re-organize the entries into nested items based on the Containing Topic.

The right-hand side can be hidden and un-hidden by double-clicking on the splitter control that sets the width.

As for the vertical space in the main panel.. well, as you add snippets the sections re-size to accommodate them. Text snippets themselves also auto-resize to their contents. Your screen shot does not have any snippets with large blocks of text in them, so you may not have seen this yet. After adding a few large snippets, when the vertical space is filled, a vertical scroll bar will appear on the right as well.

Are these the areas where you are concerned, or is there something else?
 
I meant the layout and design tabs on the ribbon menu when you're editing tables. As for the monitor space I meant horizontally. It uses space vertically just fine.

Also unrelated to the thread topic in particular but I was trying to screenshot the two tabs I meant but ShareX's rectangular snapshot function seems to be incompatible with Realm Works. When I hit the shortcut key for the function ShareX uses up a ton of processor power for 1-2 minutes before it does anything then it basically freezes at that point. I had to force close it through task manager.

Edit: Also I discovered the "Nested Container Hierarchy" option earlier. Very useful but it keeps getting unselected if I switch from the world almanac to the story one or vice-versa.
 
Edit: Also I discovered the "Nested Container Hierarchy" option earlier. Very useful but it keeps getting unselected if I switch from the world almanac to the story one or vice-versa.

It has to be set separately on each of the two views, but I have never seen the setting get lost between sessions.
 
Not as good as ShareX of course, but you could use the Windows Snipping tool to get your screenshot...
I'm not familiar with that. I think I (hopefully) explained things enough to not need a screenshot this time though anyways.
It has to be set separately on each of the two views, but I have never seen the setting get lost between sessions.
I had a feeling that was the case but I've had it reset switching between them a couple times now. A lot of things tend to reset when you switch between tabs or especially when you click outside the program and back in. It's kinda annoying to be honest.
 
I had a feeling that was the case but I've had it reset switching between them a couple times now. A lot of things tend to reset when you switch between tabs or especially when you click outside the program and back in. It's kinda annoying to be honest.

You should probably open a support case, then. I click back and forth from PDF to the current tab in RealmWorks making multiple copy-and-paste actions.. and I don't think I have ever seen any issues doing that at all.
 
You should probably open a support case, then. I click back and forth from PDF to the current tab in RealmWorks making multiple copy-and-paste actions.. and I don't think I have ever seen any issues doing that at all.
Alright, I'll look into doing that then.
 
The lack of horizontal space utility doesn't bother me because I rarely maximize windows in this era of widescreen monitors.* The biggest Realm Works is likely to get is half the available space on one screen, using the Windows 7 trick of dragging a window to the left or right edge of the available space. Normally it's just floating, though.

However, I agree that being able to open multiple windows would be a nice feature. It's an easier way to refer to other items in your database, much like all the tab suggestions I made earlier.



* I have two 2048x1152 monitors. They're on arms so I can move them around, but their typical layout is one above the other in landscape. Unusual, but great for putting a video on the top monitor while you work on something on the bottom.
 
I had a feeling that was the case but I've had it reset switching between them a couple times now. A lot of things tend to reset when you switch between tabs or especially when you click outside the program and back in. It's kinda annoying to be honest.

This issue should be greatly reduced (hopefully eliminated) in the upcoming release. It's definitely a bug.
 
The lack of horizontal space utility doesn't bother me because I rarely maximize windows in this era of widescreen monitors.* The biggest Realm Works is likely to get is half the available space on one screen, using the Windows 7 trick of dragging a window to the left or right edge of the available space. Normally it's just floating, though.

However, I agree that being able to open multiple windows would be a nice feature. It's an easier way to refer to other items in your database, much like all the tab suggestions I made earlier.



* I have two 2048x1152 monitors. They're on arms so I can move them around, but their typical layout is one above the other in landscape. Unusual, but great for putting a video on the top monitor while you work on something on the bottom.
I actually use three monitors myself (ranging from 1366x768 to 2560x1440) and normally reserve my primary monitor for the main application and my other monitors for things like PDFs, other reference information, calculator, and other unrelated programs I always have opened. Only thing it tends to share the monitor with is Photoshop or, occasionally, World Machine and/or 3ds for doing some map work. (I'm not the best artist but I can use those latter two to make icons to use on maps.)
 
More and more people are having setups with multiple monitors. its a standard now in most decent graphics cards, and decent monitors have become cheaper and cheaper.

I would like to see the ability to drag tabs out of the main window into another monitor (not just the player view) as it would improve workflow. Obviously, I realize this is a "down the road" request, but I think multi monitor is something that would make the product even more user friendly.
 
+1 on having floating windows.

MyInfo, the program I'm (still) migrating all my data from into RW has this ability and it's been invaluable.

The floating windows are static data windows only. You can't edit or alter data in any shape or form. They're just there to sit and display data so you can refer to data from several different windows at once.

In the interest of full disclosure, I design and game on a set up with 3 large widescreen monitors. I play with the VTT program Fantasy Grounds 2
 
Perhaps another great option, while the discussion is trending towards multiple monitors, would be having DM mode on one monitor, and player mode on the other.
 
Perhaps another great option, while the discussion is trending towards multiple monitors, would be having DM mode on one monitor, and player mode on the other.

That's how things currently are. Or at least it's possible to do it now... as is - you're not forced to use a second monitor (in case you don't have one).
 
That's how things currently are. Or at least it's possible to do it now... as is - you're not forced to use a second monitor (in case you don't have one).

Ahh, okay, i haven't convinced my group to try it out yet, and didn't see that in the feature list or any of the write-ups.
 
Ahh, okay, i haven't convinced my group to try it out yet, and didn't see that in the feature list or any of the write-ups.
Player View is just another window and, as such, it can be moved to any monitor.

My campaign is currently on hiatus but coming off soon. We play via VTT and our plan is to use a free remote screen sharing program to display the Player View to my players.
 
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