Frame 9 UI Scren Mode and Tab Icon Issues

Tue Mar 24 06:11:29 PDT 2009

Hi Oran,

Regarding your points, 

1. I cannot get the Paragraph Formatting tool bar Tab icons to work. On earlier versions I could drag them onto the ruler to add new tabs. While I can move existing tabs on the ruler, I cannot seem to add new with the icons. The tab icons seem inoperative, as I cannot make to do anything through dragging, double-click, etc. I do see the "New Tab Stop" text in the paragraph designer flicker when I click an icon, but nothing else happens . 

<Megha> To add a tab stop, click a tab stop symbol from Paragraph Format toolbar and click the desired position below the top ruler. Refer to FrameMaker 9 user guide , page 43.

2. If I use the "Screen Mode" icon to select? "Full Screen Mode" the menus correctly disappear. So far the only way I have found to get back out of that mode is to close and reopen the file using keyboard shortcuts. (Ctrl-W) I cannot find a keyboard shortcut or key to get back out, and menu is gone of course. What is interesting is that re-opening the file gives you the menus back, but "Screen Mode" remains in "Full Screen Mode" (checkmark) even though it is not. 

<Megha> To change the screen mode :
-> Right click on the grey area outside document window, then choose Toggle Screen Mode from the context menu.
->You can use the following keyboard shortcuts :
    Esc S M s for standard screen mode.  
    Esc S M u for full screen with user interface.
    Esc SM f for full screen.
    Esc SM t to toggle screen mode.

Regards,
Megha 

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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 19:50:07 +0000 (UTC)
From: Oran Petersen <orandeep at comcast.net>
Subject: Frame 9 UI Scren Mode and Tab Icon Issues
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I am using TCS2 with Frame 9 with the patch on XP SP3. 

For me the new user interface seems a little confusing and inconsistent in how it works, but I am figuring out most of it by experimentation and trial & error. The Help file is mostly worthless. Seems they forgot to update it for the new interface and icons in many cases. 

Two UI items however, escape me. 

1. I cannot get the Paragraph Formatting tool bar Tab icons to work. On earlier versions I could drag them onto the ruler to add new tabs. While I can move existing tabs on the ruler, I cannot seem to add new with the icons. The tab icons seem inoperative, as I cannot make to do anything through dragging, double-click, etc. I do see the "New Tab Stop" text in the paragraph designer flicker when I click an icon, but nothing else happens . 

2. If I use the "Screen Mode" icon to select? "Full Screen Mode" the menus correctly disappear. So far the only way I have found to get back out of that mode is to close and reopen the file using keyboard shortcuts. (Ctrl-W) I cannot find a keyboard shortcut or key to get back out, and menu is gone of course. What is interesting is that re-opening the file gives you the menus back, but "Screen Mode" remains in "Full Screen Mode" (checkmark) even though it is not. 

With respect to "Recent Items" on the splash screen and "File>History" I find expected behavior both before and after installing the patch. Seems to work OK for me. 

Oran Petersen 

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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 20:05:45 -0500
From: "Mike Wickham" <info at mikewickham.com>
Subject: Re: Frame 9 UI Scren Mode and Tab Icon Issues
To: "Oran Petersen" <orandeep at comcast.net>,
	<framers at lists.frameusers.com>
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> 2. If I use the "Screen Mode" icon to select "Full Screen Mode" the menus 
> correctly disappear. So far the only way I have found to get back out of 
> that mode is to close and reopen the file using keyboard shortcuts. 
> (Ctrl-W) I cannot find a keyboard shortcut or key to get back out, and 
> menu is gone of course. What is interesting is that re-opening the file 
> gives you the menus back, but "Screen Mode" remains in "Full Screen Mode" 
> (checkmark) even though it is not.

Right-click, then choose Toggle Screen Mode from the context menu.

wincmds.cfg lists these shortcuts:
    Esc S M s for standard screen mode.
    Esc S M u for full screen with user interface.
    Esc SM f for full screen.
    Esc SM t to toggle screen mode.
However, none of these shortucts works for me-- only the right-click and 
Toggle Screen Mode.

Mike Wickham

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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 20:13:38 -0500
From: "Mike Wickham" <info at mikewickham.com>
Subject: Re: Frame 9 UI Scren Mode and Tab Icon Issues
To: "Oran Petersen" <orandeep at comcast.net>,
	<framers at lists.frameusers.com>
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> For me the new user interface seems a little confusing and inconsistent in 
> how it works, but I am
> figuring out most of it by experimentation and trial & error. The Help 
> file is mostly worthless.
> Seems they forgot to update it for the new interface and icons in many 
> cases.

You may want to check out the video at this link: 
http://my.adobe.acrobat.com/p17912987/. It explains a lot about the user 
interface.

Mike Wickham

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