The Window tab in the Chapter Properties dialog allows you to specify which Window the pages in this chapter are to be displayed in, they can be displayed in:
The Main Publication Window – this is the main screen in which your publication is run – see the Window tab in Publication Properties dialog for more information.
A Publication panel – if you have used the Layout tab in the Publication Properties dialog, you can create a publication with multiple panels (i.e. windows) open at the same time. Using this option you can select which panel the pages in this chapter will be displayed in – see Layout tab for more information.
A New Window – in which case you can set the same options for the new window as you could for the Main Publication Window – see below for more information.
Use the Main Publication Window when a chapter is a continuation of your publication – in other words, you may have split your publication into chapters simply to help you organise your work during development and editing of the publication.
Use a new Window when you want to have the pages within a chapter popup over the top of the Main Publication Window – this means you can have more than one page displayed on screen at one time.
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All the pages within a chapter will display in the same window. Thus, if you want some pages to display in a different window, you must create a new chapter and set up the Window tab in its Chapter Properties dialog accordingly.
Use the Monitor option if you want this chapter to use a particular monitor on systems capable of running multiple monitors. Opus allows you to set up to 15 different monitors. In most cases you will need a special graphics card for this feature but many laptop computers provide this facility.
Use the Display in Main Publication Window option if you want all of the pages in this chapter to display in the main window of your publication. By default, this option is selected.
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Unless you want the pages in this chapter to popup in a new window, you will always have this option selected for each new chapter.
Use the Display in Publication Panel option if you want all the pages in this chapter to display in a specified panel. Click on the down arrow to the right of the box to list all of the Panel names and select the one you want to use.
The Layout tab in the Publication Properties dialog allows you to set the number of panels per screen. For example, the Split Vertical option has two panes per screen – the Main Publication Window and Panel 1 – if you want the pages in this chapter displayed in a panel, you must select for this example Panel 1 from the list. A different chapter within this publication would also need to be set to Display in Main Publication Window.
Use the Display in new Window option if you want all the pages in this chapter to display in a popup window. Selecting this option will highlight the Display in new Window panel options (described below).
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The options in this panel allow you to set the same options for the new window as you could for the Main Publication Window in the Window tab of the Publication Properties dialog.
Use the Title Bar option if you want the new window to include a Title Bar. The Title box allows you to type the name that will appear on the left-hand side of the Title Bar – make the title as descriptive as you like.
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The name entered in the Title box does not change the name of the chapter as it appears in the Objects tab in the Organiser.
Use the System Menu option if you want the user to be able to close the window.
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This option will only appear if the Title Bar option (point 4 above) has been used.
Use the Minimise Box option if you want the user to be able to minimise the window on screen.
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This option will only appear if the Title Bar option (point 4 above) has been used.
Use the Maximise Box option if you want the user to be able to open the window to full screen size.
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This option will only appear if the Title Bar option (point 4 above) has been used.
Use the Always on Top option if you want this window to appear above all other windows currently open on screen.
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This option is particularly useful for help files and software training publications where the instructions can sit permanently over the software being used.
Use the Drag by Contents option if you want the user to be able to click anywhere inside the window to drag the window to a new position on screen.
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The standard method for moving a window is to click and drag the Title Bar of the window – this option allows you to drag the window by clicking anywhere inside the window. This option is useful if you have not included the Title Bar option (see point 4 above).
This option will not work if you have drag objects on the page.
Use the Transparent Background option if you want pages that have no background colour selected in the Background tab of their Page Properties dialog to appear transparent on screen.
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If this option is not selected then pages that have no background colour will be displayed with the colour entered in the Surround Colour option in the Options tab of the Publication Properties dialog.
Use the Border panel if you want the window to have a border. There are two options: Thin and Resizable. The Thin option is a single line border and does not allow the user to stretch or shrink the size of the window. The Resizable option allows you to create a window that can be resized by the user.
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If a user resizes the window below the page size, scrollbars will appear.
Use the Location panel to set the position of the window when it first appears on screen. Use the spin buttons to set the percentage in the Across and Down boxes. Alternatively, type the percentage directly into the boxes.
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Setting the location to 50% Across and 50% Down will display the window in the centre of the screen.
Use the Size to Fit option in the Size panel to set the size of the window to the page size set in the General tab of the Chapter Properties dialog. By default, this option is selected.
Use the Custom option in the Size panel to set the window size to your own width and height. Use the spin buttons to set the number of pixels for the Width and Height boxes. Alternatively, type the number of pixels directly into the boxes.
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If you make the window smaller than the page size, scrollbars will appear. If you make it larger than the page size, the background colour will be set to the Surround Colour in the Options tab of the Publication Properties dialog.
Click on the Apply button to save your changes.