About layout dimensions...

[Protour Travel]

When playing around with FMP12 last night, I opened one of the starter solutions.

The first thing I noticed was that it fit perfectly on my screen's window perfectly both maximized and restored down. How do they do this?

I have a 18.4" screen running at 1920 x 1080.

I went into the startup script and didn't see anything that would direct the app to do this.

When I went into layout mode, the dimensions for that layout are 900pt x 640pt.

In the 'file options' dialog and under Switch to Layout, it specifies "Startup Screen".

The Startup Screen is a blank layout with a size of 1713pt wide and 4075pt high

I'm sure the Startup Screen has something to do with this but that's the only thing I'm sure of.

Let me add that two of the fields (one horizontal & one vertical) expand and contract to keep everything on an even keel. In the image below they are the Explanation and Purpose fields respectively.

In my opinion, this is a great feature and I hope it's new with v12. I would hate to know it was available all along.

[Vaughan]

Look into the auto-size feature, which was introduced in FMP 9. It allows layout objects to expand and move around the screen to fill available window space.

It's done layout-by-layout, there is not magic way of converting existing layout to use the feature.

Generally a layout is designed to fit with a smallest set of dimensions -- I design for 13 inch laptop computers 1280x7whateveritis. Be aware that the available space differs between Mac and Windows so play around and work out what works. The auto-size feature then makes use of the extra available space if the window is make larger.

This scaling only goes so far: for instance a screen designed to fit a mobile phone will not be very useful on a 1920x1080 monitor. If your solution has to cover this range of monitor sizes then consider making multiple sets optimised for each general type and switch between them at startup.

[Protour Travel]

Well I'll be dipped. Thank you Vaughan!

[Protour Travel]

So obviously the Startup Screen has nothing to do with this. Can someone tell me it's purpose?