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Example - A Simple Basic Window to get started

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A Window is the most basic way of displaying images, texts and graphics in Noticeboard. You can also think of it as a page on your display. In this example we are showing you a non Type Window, ie you have not selected a "Type" option. At this moment, a basic Window does not support Touches, if you are displaying it on a touch screen and wanted to intereact with it, change to a Fixed Type Window, it is the equivalent.

In this example, it will get you started and set up a Window for continous display on your screen.
 

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Cluster

First launch Noticeboard, click on the Project tab and Insert a Cluster. All Noticeboard project requires a cluster, it is a container for holding all project items below it, including Group, Window, Splash, Video and Browser. You can insert a few Clusters in a project each holding a couple of items. A cluster runs independently of each other, as Noticeboard support running a cluster in a different CPU, so in a multi-processor system you may want to plan for as many cluster as possible to spread the load.

Window Coordinate and Size.

Next, add a Window. A Window has a Left and Top Coordinate, this is to allows you to place exactly where you wanted since it does not have a handle to move it around. So, you have to find out your screen resolution before hand, especially if you have a multiple screens computer to know where to place your window across the screens. Enter the width and height, as Noticeboard allows you to place a number of Windows per screen or across many screens, it need to know the exact dimention in pixel.

Display Time and Scheduling

In almost all situation, you are likely to have more then a page of information to display and want it to take turns to show onto your display screen. Therefore you have to set a start time and a duration ( Visible time ) to show itself. In this example we started from time 0 and have a value of 600 seconds to show on the screen before it went off. If you have another Window to display next, the start time would be 600.

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Set a window background if you like, the default has a transparent background.

By checking the interval you indicate you like to repeat the schedule, otherwise it only play once (under it's parent schedule). A value of zero for the repeat counter indicates forever, a value on one means it repeat itself one more time.

In the above we mentioned if you have a second window, assuming it has a time period of 1 minute and started at 2 minutes ( which is the display time for this window), so the interval value should be 1 minute for the first window and 2 minutes for the second window. Therefore the 2 windows will repeat itselves as long as the screen is switch on.

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To create the content, change the right tab to "Objects". Drag a picture from your folder, scale and align to the window if neccessary.

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To create a graphic shape, click on the path icon and draw a rectangle path.

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Click on Pointer, it will show a list of graphical shapes for selection. You may change the size of your selection box, now you can select a shape change it's attributes, to see the changes, click on the selected shape to change the rectangle path on the canvas. To finalize your shape, click Convert to Shape.

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Next, use the color tool to fill the shape with color. You may switch from a Solid color to a Linear or Radial gradient to give your shape a boost.

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Next enter a text by clicking on the text icon and double click anywhere in the canvas. On the text Tab, there are tools that you can use to change the font characteristic and fill a color for your text.

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There you are, a simple Window. Now save it, exit and double click on it. It will show itself for 10 minutes and repeat continously. In reality if you have only one window, then extend the display time of 10 minutes to 10 hours by all means.
 
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