Flex Screen

Collect!'s Flex Screen feature expands the Collect! screen automatically to fit whatever monitor you are viewing. This feature detects the screen resolution automatically and Collect! stretches to the most appropriate size for the monitor. If desired, you can make additional adjustments manually, or return the screen to its native dimensions.

To enable the Flex Screen feature, Collect! looks for uidefault.ini in the cv11\bin folder. This INI file is shipped with CV11.3 Build 4.1 and newer.

Disable Flex Screen

If you do not want Collect! to stretch to fill your monitor, you can rename or remove the uidefault.ini from the CV11\bin folder. Or, you can reset the dimensions in your own INI file as described below.

Customize Flex Screen

To customize the dimensions and font that Collect! uses for Flex Screen, you can modify the uidefault.ini file as described in this topic.

View uidefault.ini

You can also create your own INI files and use a Command Line argument to tell Collect! what file to use for Flex Screen. This enables you to use different settings for individual workstations. This is also described in this topic.

Specify An Ini File

Optionally, you can specify a different INI file in the Collect! shortcut "Target" if you want Collect! to use for Flex Screen. This enables you to apply you own unique settings to different workstations.

Collect! has a special Command Line Startup Option for the Flex Screen. It is /c.

Example:

Cv11\bin\cv11.exe /c

Used by itself, this command is just like Collect!'s default behavior. It just looks for the uidefault.ini in the CV11\bin. But, if you specify a different INI, Collect! will read that for all the Flex Screen settings.

Example:

CV11.exe /c{filename}
Target: CV11\bin\cv11.exe /cmyui.ini

INI File Specified in the Command Line

The INI file specified in Collect!'s shortcut Target must be present in the CV11\bin folder. If you do not specify a file name, Collect! will look for "CV11\bin\uidefault.ini" which will be used for everyone.

Adjusting Ini Settings

Collect! ships with the uidefault.ini. This may be found in your cv11\bin folder.

In the INI file, there are several settings that you can set manually, if desired. To let Collect! detect the appropriate settings automatically, you only need to set the "autosize" settings.

It is recommended that you use the "autosize" feature and let Collect! determine the Collect! screen size and the font size. Optionally, you can draw a border around each field and set the font to "fixed."

# Enable autosizing and Collect! will set the screen size
autosize=yes

# Draw a border around the fields
border=yes

# Use a fixed font
fixed=no

If you set "autosize" to YES, this overrides all other settings, except "border" and "fixed" font.

To enable the following settings, you must set "autosize" to NO.

autosize=no

#Set a font size (This is like setting /f12 on the command line)
font=12

# Set the horizontal modifier
horizontal=10

# Set the vertical modifier
vertical=20

You can create special settings for a specific workstation and save the settings in a uniquely named INI file. Put the INI in the cv11\bin folder and reference it in the workstation's Collect! shortcut to apply the settings to just that workstation.

Tech Note

The following table shows the autosizing parameters used by Collect! when automatically setting the size of the Collect! screen.

Width, Height , Horizontal, Vertical, Font

{ 2048, 1536, 19, 43, 22 }
{ 1920, 1440, 17, 41, 21 }
{ 1920, 1200, 19, 35, 21 }
{ 1920, 1080, 19, 32, 21 }
{ 1856, 1392, 17, 41, 21 }
{ 1800, 1440, 17, 42, 19 }
{ 1792, 1344, 17, 40, 18 }
{ 1680, 1050, 17, 30, 15 }
{ 1600, 1200, 15, 35, 14 }
{ 1440, 900, 13, 22, 11 }
{ 1360, 1024, 11, 29, 11 }
{ 1280, 1024, 11, 29, 12 }
{ 1280, 960, 11, 27, 12 }
{ 1280, 800, 12, 22, 11 }
{ 1280, 768, 12, 20, 11 }
{ 1280, 720, 11, 21, 11 }
{ 1152, 864, 11, 22, 11 }
{ 1024, 768, 10, 21, 10 }
{ 800, 600, 7, 16, 6 }

Summary

The Flex Screen feature expands the Collect! screen to fit whatever monitor you are viewing. If needed, you can create special settings for a specific workstation and use those to set the screen size, instead of the defaults Collect! uses automatically. You can also remove the uidefault.ini and Collect! will revert back to its native dimensions.

See Also

- Command Line Startup Options