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Best custom display settings for a canvas app with a lot of visual content (to be consumed on desktop)?

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I am building a canvas app with a lot of displayed content and questions (it teached users about a planning process and guides them through creating a yearly plan). Can someone advise me re: custom display settings? The default feels too short, and ipad feels too narrow. Most if not all users will be on desktop. Thanky in advance! 

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  • LaurensM Profile Picture
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    Hi @KBeale,

     

    Are you referring to making your app screen fully dynamic instead of the locked iPad ratio that is turned on by default?

    You can make the app fully dynamic width/height wise by turning off the scale to fit & lock aspect ratio settings under 'Display' in your app settings.

     

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    Enabling this, however, will no longer allow you to simply drag & drop components because the X & Y values would be hardcoded and the display height and width are dynamic - adjusts to the user's screen. You could use Horizontal and Vertical containers instead, there are a lot of useful blog posts & YouTube videos on Responsive Design.

     

    If this solves your question, would you be so kind as to accept it as a solution.

    Thanks!

  • JasonZF Profile Picture
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    I find the best method to create dynamic apps that resize depending on people's window size is going with a 16:9 ratio and Scale to fit and Lock Aspect Ratio both turned off.

     

    The next step becomes making extensive use of the App.ActiveScreen.Width, App.ActiveScreen.Height, and App.ActiveScreen.Size properties for positioning, control sizing, font sizes, etc. This is also a good opportunity to learn and practice using Horizontal and Vertical Containers. They take some initial set-up, but it is amazing having a whole set of controls able to wrap around underneath another container.

     

    As an example, this settings screen in one of my apps has a bunch of nested containers. Horizontal container containing two vertical containers, then additional containers within. The whole thing wraps down to one column when the window is made small.

     

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