Display Settings

Scaling

Use Scaling Settings to specify the Scaling type used globally in Newlook's generated forms. In addition, these settings may be used to force the aspect ratio of the fonts used within your solution. By default a font's scaling will be dictated by the available space for any given form size. In some instances an irregular form size may result in a font that appears thinner.

Type

Setting	Description
Stretch	(Default) This type of scaling ensures that controls are re-sized to fit the available form size. With this type of scaling you can also choose to enable the option to maintain the default aspect ratio of fonts.
Zoom	Zoom scaling is similar to stretch scaling, but differs in that the optimal control dimensions are chosen to fit the available form size while still maintaining the font's native aspect ratio. Using this mode you can be confident the correct aspect ratio of fonts will be used, but you may end up with unused space on the form.
Fixed	Fixed scaling turns off dynamic scaling and will size controls based predominantly on the global font size chosen for the given field type. Fixed scaling also allows you to choose a scaling factor, similar to that employed within Newlook Server.

Font aspect ratio

Setting	Description
Maintain default font aspect ratio on 24x80 screens	Maintains the default aspect ratio of fonts on 24x80 screens. This affects the font size selected to fit within the physical control's dimensions after the physical control dimensions have been chosen for the given form size.
Maintain default font aspect ratio on 27x132 screens	Maintains the default aspect ratio of fonts on 27x132 screens. This affects the font size selected to fit within the physical control's dimensions after the physical control dimensions have been chosen for the given form size.

NOTE:

Although turning on the option to maintain the font aspect ratio will result in a font with a specific height and width ratio, it does not apply to the dynamic scaling employed to the control sizes. Turning on these options could result in text being wrapped/clipped which will be most evident on 27x132 screens.

Background Settings

Use Background Settings to customize the look and feel of the default background displayed in the Newlook interface.

Setting	Description
Picture	Specifies an image file to be displayed in the form background. Newlook supports SVG, PNG, GIF (including animated GIFs), JPEG, and ICO image files.
Alignment	Determines how the Picture will be aligned in the form.
Size	Determines the way in which a picture is sized in the form background.
Opacity	Specifies the opacity of the picture in the form background.

Menu Settings

Use Menu Settings to globally configure the graphical appearance of menus in your application.

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If you do not specify any Menu settings, then Newlook will use the default icon as the menu button.

Pictures

The Picture properties specify the images used as the menu icon for its various states. Newlook supports SVG, PNG, GIF (including animated GIFs), JPEG, and ICO image files.

Setting	Description
Normal	Normal picture specifies the image used as the standard menu button. If no image is specified in this field, Newlook will use the default image .
Hover	Hover picture specifies the image displayed when the mouse pointer is over a menu item. If no image is specified in this field, Newlook will use the default hover image .
Down	Down picture specifies the image displayed when the mouse button is left-clicked. If no image is specified in this field, the menu button will not change when clicked.
Disabled	Disabled picture specifies the image displayed when the control is disabled. If no image is specified in this field, the menu button will not change when it is disabled.

Options

Setting

Description

Use menu option numbers

Menu text is displayed with its corresponding option number (1 to 999).

If the Normal picture option in Menu Settings is blank and Use menu option numbers is turned on, then menu buttons will display as a reversed square containing the menu number. The color of the image will be the same as the color specified for the menu text.

If an image file has been specified in the Normal picture option in Menu settings then the menu option number will appear to the left of the menu text.