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Full Screen Mode

There are three possibilities for switching presentation mode, the Windows menu command, the Full Screen window button, or changing to a new active window that is in another presentation mode. Command F is the keyboard short cut for toggle Full Screen mode, this is the Apple recommended shortcut assignment.

Clicking the Full Screen button found on the upper right corner of the drawing window (see screen shot to left) will change the EazyDraw user interface to Full Screen mode. To change from Full Screen mode back to Multi-Drawing mode, move the mouse cursor to the top of the screen, to the right corner; the menu bar will slide down - use the blue toggle button to return to Multi-Drawing presentation mode.

The Windows Menu may be used to change between Full Screen and Multi-Drawing presentation modes. The menu command is found near the top, it will indicate Enter, or Exit Full Screen mode as appropriate.

Canvas Margin: In Full Screen mode, EazyDraw adds a canvas margin (or active border) to the drawing. This provides extra working area to the drawing, the contents of this additional drawing area are not printed or exported. A drawing in non-full-screen mode may have a margin as well, this is a setting found on the the Page Layout parameter palette.

Toolbar: EazyDraw (default settings) provides a larger Toolbar when in the Full Screen mode. This is logical because the drawing window will be wider than a typical window in Multi-Drawing mode and this provides room for more tools.

Presentation Mode is preserved for each open drawing. Switching to another active drawing will cause the Presentation Mode to switch to the mode last used with the new active drawing.

Presentation Mode is not saved with a drawing. If a drawing is opened (or a New Drawing created) the current Presentation Mode is used.

The main drawing toolbar is the same for all open drawings, the customization of tools is not saved specific to a individual drawing. EazyDraw maintains two "Toolbars" one for each Presentation Mode. Both of these are fully customizable . Changes made are saved for the corresponding toolbar (multi-drawing or full screen) in use at the time of customization.

Further user management of toolbars is provided on the View main menu, where a toolbar configuration may be written to a disk file or restored from a disk file.

EazyDraw maintains two independent settings for Canvas Margin, one for each presentation mode. These independent settings are saved with each drawing (unlike toolbar configuration discussed above). The Canvas Margin parameter is managed on the Page Layout parameter palette. The value shown or a value entered on Page Layout will apply to the current presentation mode for the drawing. When presentation mode is switched, the Margin setting is changed automatically. This gives full user control over both settings in a natural automatic fashion.

Default values for the two Margin settings are managed via the Page Layout parameter palette. When Page Layout defaults are set or restored, both Margin settings are set or restored.

If a Canvas Margin is not needed in Full Screen mode then set the Canvas Margin to zero, after switching to Full Screen mode. Then changes to Full Screen mode will not automaticall add a Canvas Margin. Use normal methods to set defaults for the Page Layout palette and this will become your default behavior.