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TOPIC: Comment Information on Different Computers/Screen Sizes

Comment Information on Different Computers/Screen Sizes 14 years 1 week ago #30141

OK, call me your worst anal-retentive nightmare, but I have questions--And some of them may be because I don't have the first idea as to how to effectively navigate my computer (or this program)-

I absolutely HATE vertical scrolling--especially if I am trying to do a touch screen selection of comments because they come up sequentially and seem to take me forever to get to the one I want (maybe there's a simple way that I don't know about which might make this whole post useless and embarassing) --Horizontal scrolling for me is much faster because it comes up in blocks--I have a limited # of row choices that I don't have to scroll thru, and if I don't find what I want I right click to bring up the next block of selections.  I don't want to be sitting there in the field trying to find the appropriate comment.
So, to make a long story kind of shorter--I have a C2Go and I'm trying to customize my comment selections to fit on the screen without having to scroll a lot in either direction, particularly vertical (remember I HATE vertical scrolling).  If you developed your program, as I did, on a main desktop or laptop, the C2Go (as I'm sure most other specific brands of whatever have different screen display sizes for you to select from), only displays a portion of the comments you may have incorporated into your main Inspectorpro program display on your main computer--Works good for me to visualize on my main computer in that I have all of the comments for the inspection in my desktop or laptop inspection program--- not so good for my small screen computer in the field if I want to make quick choices and I can't see them all.  So, call me nuts, but I am actually trying to set up my screen display (on my C2Go) to optimize my comment selection process in the field.  (I actually incorporate blank comments into my Items to roll the comments into the next column of comments so I don't have to vertically scroll)--That's anal-retentive for you!
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I have even gone so far as to setting up dummy comments in Inspector Pro to see how they visually format on different screens on different computers--And, I have at least one question so far--When I add an Item, and set the Report Settings to auto adjust so that I can have a whole bunch of truncated comments (remember I HATE vertical scrolling), and I select two selection panels, the column content seems to be always different between the first and second selection panels (or any of the screen panels for that matter).  The first selection panel seems to give me 10 rows before it creates a second column, the second selection panel a lot more, or at least not a predictable number relative to the first panel--

Is this something everybody knows about and I'm simply behind the learning curve, or does the Creator have some words of wisdom for us?

Thanks, DrBob

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Re: Comment Information on Different Computers/Screen Sizes 14 years 1 week ago #30147

Leave off auto adjust ,that was the only option originally. Just both panels to 1 column wide under Report Settings->Options->Item Options, click Reset, Save Template. Then close out of the program and go back in (otherwise it won't show all the panels changed until you do). Now all areas should take up the full width and there should be no vertical scrolling. The whole thing was designed for horizontal as one click gives you another 30 comments or so (depending on screen size). You can also hover over a comment if you need to see what the entire thing says, but that should rarely be necessary.

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Dominic Maricic
Home Inspector Pro Home Inspection Software - CEO

Re: Comment Information on Different Computers/Screen Sizes 14 years 1 week ago #30157

Thanks, Dom:
The part that was confusing me was that I was not closing out the program, only saving the template and re-opening it.  As you know, this won't work.  Closing it out, however, correctly gives me back the template changes I made--Thanks.

I understand your solution, and as usual I'm trying to fix something that isn't broken (remember I'm an engineer).  Probably won't be the last time, unfortunately.  Thanks for your patience.
DrBob 

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Re: Comment Information on Different Computers/Screen Sizes 14 years 6 days ago #30186

Glad to help :) I've tried making it take change the program immediately but the panels have internal storage that store their size. So if you'd already visited a section it wouldn't revert. That's why there's the need to reload. I'll revisit this later when I finish up some other features, just too many things to upgrade right now!

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Dominic Maricic
Home Inspector Pro Home Inspection Software - CEO
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