Sizing Windows

Terminology: When you first start HTML.edit, it opens into its own application window, also called the card window (as it is in HyperCard). You edit documents in a document window, which is enclosed within the HTML.edit application window. I'll try to stick to using “card window” and its enclosed “document window”.

HTML.edit opens into its own window, and while it can theoretically contain up to 16 million documents, it displays one document at a time. The HTML.edit card window can be as large as 1024H x 1024V pixels, or can be set to a smaller size. This allows small and large screen users to resize the editor to best utilize screen resources, and is quite larger than previous versions.

For a visual description of the HTML.edit editor window, see Window Elements.

You'll probably spend less time fussing with the window size than you will reading this, but here goes…

Sizing the Document Window
Dragging the document resize box (lower right of the document window) will resize both the application and card windows.

Within the application window, clicking on the document zoom box (upper right of the document window) zooms the document to the current card window size. This is usually unnecessary, as this is done automatically upon opening the card. See below on use of the Scroll Window.

Sizing the Card Window Using the Document Zoom Box PopUp Menu

Note that you can drag on the document zoom box (not the card window’s zoom box, but the one located on the document upper right) to resize the card window to several standard window sizes. There is also a "Maximize" and "Minimize" command. The Maximize command opens the window to the full size of your screen. This is the same as clicking on the Maximize box.

Sizing the Card Window Using the Scroll Window
The scroll window allows you to open HTML.edit into a window larger than your screen. You can then navigate within the larger application window using the Scroll Window. To resize the card window using the Scroll Window, follow these steps:

1.
Choose Scroll from the Windows menu (or type Command-E), or click anywhere on the grey area behind the document window. 

The Scroll window appears.

2.
Drag from any edge or corner of the rectangle to resize the card window.

The white area represents the entire card, the rectangle represents the card window, that is, the current viewable area.

To make the card window the same size as the card, you can either double-click inside the Scroll window or click the window’s zoom box. (If your screen is smaller than the current card size, these actions make the card window about the same size as the screen.)

To look at other parts of the card, follow these steps:

1.
Open the Scroll window by choosing Scroll from the Windows menu (or pressing Command-E).

2. Use the hand inside the Scroll window to move the rectangle.

(To constrain the scrolling to either horizontal or vertical movement, hold down the Shift key.)

Back to Key Shortcuts, on to Index, or return to HTML.edit Features.