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The Display window & changing colours
The available work area of the main display window is automatically sized to accommodate the configured printer paper size at the maximum available scale (400%) in either portrait or landscape orientation. However, its visible size will be less than the available area.
When loading a new calendar file, the visible window size will initially automatically show the whole calendar if the specified display scale (i.e. the scale value saved as part of that particular calendar file) is less than a user-configurable value - 60%, as supplied. If the specified display scale is higher than this the initial visible window size will be the same as if it had been the user-configurable value (e.g. 60%) and not all of the calendar will be visible. (After this initial opening, of course, the user can change the visible window size and view any part of the calendar area with the toggle, adjust buttons and/or scroll bars)
The calendar is displayed on a representation of the configured printer paper (in White) complete with any non-printing borders shown (as a Dark Grey surround). There is also a small margin in the window at the top and left of the ‘paper’ merely for cosmetic purposes: it never appears in print..
User interactions directly with the display window are concerned only with changing the colours of the various displayed elements. In general, clicking with any button over any element will lead to a menu tree allowing the colours relevant to that element to be changed. The only exception to this is that the colours for Red Letter Days are handled in one of the ‘Edit calendar design’ window sub-panes - see later.
The precise menu tree options for changing the colours depends on the format. For example, in Formats1-4 the colours of the date and/or day text and their respective boxfill colours can be changed on an individual box basis - or the colour can be applied to a whole row or column, or all boxes made the same.
Contrast this with Format 5 where the colour choices are more appropriately applied to ‘Every same day’ e.g. every Tuesday in the same colour.
In Formats 7 and 8 - which display a whole year to a page - the choices are necessarily more limited but separate colours for the different elements are still available.
For background/box-fill colours and outline/grid colours the option to choose ‘no colour’ is provided. Effectively, this makes the area/line transparent and anything ‘beneath’ it will then be visible.
For a few elements - the week text colour, the ordinal dates colour, the moon phase colour, the calendar outline colour and the picture area outline colour - access to the colour-changing menu is by clicking <menu> over any part of the display window not occupied by another element. (In Format 8 the week colour is accessible from two menus, but this is purely for user-convenience.)
When any Colour Picker window initially opens, the colour currently applied to the element concerned will be displayed in the Colour Picker window.
If any element overlaps another area then the one ‘above’ will take precedence with the mouse pointer i.e. the colours in, say, an individual box in the date area will not be able to be changed if the Month box or Year box is hiding it. So, if you intend to superimpose the Month box and/or Year box on top of other areas it is best to keep them out of the way until the colours of these other areas are completed.
The only other practical point worth noting when changing colours is that the display necessarily has to be redrawn after every colour selection. This is not an issue with most formats, but in the very ‘busy’ Formats 7 and 8 the redrawing can take a few seconds each time (depending on the speed of your machine).
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