Screen management

Adding, naming, duplicating, grouping, marking as favorite and deleting screens; the upper / lower area that stays fixed on all screens, and the screen transition settings.

Screen types

Every view in the project is a screen. The type of the screen determines how it is used in Live. The type is selected when the screen is created, or later in the Screen type field (Screen properties › General).

The project tree shows the screens by type in three fixed branches under Screens: 2D Screens (normal screens and templates), Faceplates and 3D Scenes. If you change the type of a screen, the screen moves to its own branch. Recipe and report design screens are not listed in these branches but under the Recipes / Reports section. General use of the tree: Project tree.

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1. 2D Screens — regular screens and templates (with their groups).
2. Start screen — play icon in a green circle.
3. Favorite — yellow star: the screen is in the Favorites list of the Live menu.
4. Faceplates — screens of the faceplate (pop-up window) type.
5. Add new faceplate — the button on the right of the row; opens the New Faceplate window.
6. 3D Scenes — 3D screens that rotate through 360° (branch collapsed).

Adding a screen

1. Issue the New screen command

   Click the Screen button on the toolbar, the Add›New screen command, or the 2D Screens button to the right of the Add new screen row in the Project tree. For a 3D scene use the 3D scene button or the Add›New 3D screen command; for a faceplate use the Faceplate button (a faceplate is created with a separate window: Faceplate and pop-up window). Add a new screen to this group on a group's row (or in its context menu) puts the screen directly in that group.

2. Know the default values

   A new screen is created with the name Sayfa_1, Sayfa_2 … (3D scene Sahne_1 …), a size of 1920 × 1080 pixels, a #dfe5ec background and a 10-pixel grid. If a screen is open (or another screen of the same type), the new screen inherits its size, background color and grid square; if the open screen is a faceplate, it does not serve as a size model for a new 2D screen. If the command was given from the toolbar or the Add menu, the screen goes into the group of the open screen.

3. Change the name

   The screen opens in the editor. Change its name with Rename (F2) or in the Name field of the Screen properties.

Screen menu

Right-clicking a screen in the project tree (or the tab of an open screen) opens the screen menu.

Open

Opens the screen as a tab in the editor.

Rename

Changes the name. The name may contain letters, digits, spaces, _ and -; it must be unique in the project regardless of upper / lower case.

Duplicate

Adds a copy of the screen and its objects with the name Ad_2 (Ad_3 … if it is already used) immediately after the original. The objects receive new IDs; tag bindings, events and screen properties are copied.

Convert page to 3D…

Generates a new 3D scene from the 2D screen. Details: Convert page to 3D.

Move to group

Moves the screen to a group (or to the root without a group). It is inactive if the project has no group.

Set as start screen

Specifies the screen that Live shows at startup (see below).

Add to favorites / Remove from favorites

Adds the screen to or removes it from the Screens list in the Live system menu (see Favorite pages below). Not available for faceplates, templates and design screens.

Delete

After a confirmation window, deletes the screen and its objects. At least one (non-design) screen must remain in the project.

What happens when a screen is deleted

References to a deleted screen are cleaned up as follows: the start screen is cleared (Live opens the first screen that can be opened), the selection for the fixed top / bottom area is cleared, the target screen of a Navigation menu item is cleared, and the rows in the TV display sequence are deleted. Screen references in event functions are not cleaned up; Tools›Check project lists them as the error refers to a deleted screen. The Displayed screen value of Screen window objects does not change either; in Live such a window stays empty.

Grouping and order

In a project with many screens you can divide the screens into groups (folders). Right-click the Screens node or a group and select Add new group / Add subgroup. Move a screen by dragging it onto the group row or with Move to group.

• A group name may contain letters, digits, spaces and _ - .; the same name cannot be used twice in the same place.
• Groups are shared by the three branches: a group appears in each branch whose type of screens it contains; a group without any screens appears in all branches.
• Delete group does not delete its contents; the screens and subgroups move up one level.
• Groups are sorted by name in the tree. Screens are listed in the order they were created; a duplicated screen is placed after the original. There is no command that changes the order of screens; the order of the screen list in Live is set in the Navigation menu table.
• Groups are for organization only; they have no effect in Live. Design screens are not placed in groups.

Start screen

In the tree, a play icon in a green circle appears next to the start screen (a yellow star marks a favorite page). You select the start screen with the Set as start screen command in the screen menu or in the Live settings › General › Start screen field (Live settings). If the field is empty, the first screen in the project is used.

If the start screen is a draft (if Show in Live is off), Live opens the first openable normal screen in the list; Check project reports this situation as an error. If the start screen requires authorization, Live shows the lock view and the log-on window instead of the screen.

Favorite pages

Make the screens the operator opens most often favorites: the Screens list in the Live system menu consists of the start screen and the favorite screens. Other screens are reached with the navigation buttons on the screen itself.

1. Make the screen a favorite

   In the project tree, right-click the screen and select Add to favorites. The same setting is the Screen properties › General › Favorite page switch (Screen properties).

2. Check in the tree

   A yellow star appears next to the name of a favorite page. To remove it from the favorites, select Remove from favorites in the same menu or turn off the switch.

3. See it in Live

   A favorite screen is listed in the Screens section of the system menu: Navigation menu › Favorites.

• Only normal 2D screens and 3D scenes can be favorites. If you change the type of a favorite page to faceplate, template or design screen, the favorite mark is removed.
• Favorite status is stored in the project and is the same on all Live stations.

Screen management section

In the project tree, open the Screen management section. It has two tabs: Layout and Navigation menu (details in the topic Navigation menu). Below it there is also a Menus and toolbars section (Menus and toolbars).

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1. Screen Template — starts the wizard; if a template is installed, it also shows its status.
2. Fixed top area — the screen that stays above all screens.
3. Height — height of the area in pixels (0 – 600).
4. Transition effect — None, Fade, Slide.
5. Scale to screen

Screen Template

The Start screen template wizard button sets up the top / bottom bars (logo, project name, user, time, alarms, command buttons, screen navigation) with the wizard and fills in the fixed areas below. If a template is installed, the card shows Template installed. Details: Screen template wizard.

Fixed top area › Screen

The selected screen is shown fixed above all screens in Live (for the title, clock, user, alarm row and navigation buttons). If none is selected, the area is not shown.

Fixed top area › Height (px)

The height of the area (0 – 600). The screen is fitted into this area while keeping its aspect ratio. If 0 is entered, Live uses 80 pixels.

Fixed bottom area

The screen that stays at the bottom of the display, with the same rules.

Transition effect

None, Fade or Slide: the 0.25-second transition applied when the main screen changes. Fixed areas and pop-up windows are not affected.

Scale to screen

When on, the main screen is centered in the window. When off, the screen is still fitted to the window but is not centered; it is aligned to the top-left corner.

Limitations and points to note

• The screen name is not the name displayed in Live. In the menu, in the window title and in the TV top bar, the Display name (the screen name if it is empty) is used; see Screen properties.
• When a screen is renamed, the references in event functions and menus are not broken; references are made to the screen ID, not to the name.
• A screen cannot be shown in a Screen window within itself.