We have some space available on a video wall, specifically a section of 18 panels (9 panels wide, 2 high), where each panel is 1400x1050, so a total size of 12600x2100.
What I've done so far (since none of the interactive aspects of the Hobbit display are usable) is to make a frameset with the main view (50%), the critical systems view (30%), and a devmon weathermap (20%). The main view and the critical systems view are generated by an extra task running with bigger fonts and icon sizes.
I am considering putting the non-green view on as well (in the same column as the critical systems view).
However, there are still a number of problems: 1)I have gone as large as I can go with FONT tags and without CSS changes (it's a long time since I did any web development, and CSS was quite new then ...). 2)Some font sizes are hardcoded in the source code (e.g. event log on the bb2 page). While there is a MKBBACKFONT for the ack log (which I don't use), there is no MKBBLOGFONT. 3)The icons (at 64 pixels) are pixelating 4)The background images are too small (by over 3 *)
I managed to take a photo of our section of the video wall, as it's difficult to get an idea of just how big it is:
http://staff.telkomsa.net/~bgmilne/hobbit-videowall.jpg
(I've made a lot of other changes as well since this, but I don't have a current photo now).
I am prepared to try and fix some of these issues, e.g.: 1)Fix hardcoded fonts in source (e.g. use MKBBLOGFONT, or even MKBBACKFONT in the event log table) 2)Create some icon skins for various sizes (ideally in vector format in svn?)
However, if any other people have similar problems/requirements, I wouldn't mind some assistance.
However, I do want to try and fix some of this by today ..
Regards, Buchan
We have extended the background gifs (/gifs/bkg-*.gif) with black, to prevent them from repeating on high-resolution screens (my laptop is 1920x1280). I extended them to 1920 pixels wide, but you should be able to make them as wide as you like. But on your big screen, maybe the colored section to the left will be too small?
/Johan
-----Original Message----- From: Buchan Milne [mailto:bgmilne at staff.telkomsa.net] Sent: den 4 februari 2009 09:05 To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Themeing for large displays
We have some space available on a video wall, specifically a section of 18 panels (9 panels wide, 2 high), where each panel is 1400x1050, so a total size of 12600x2100.
What I've done so far (since none of the interactive aspects of the Hobbit display are usable) is to make a frameset with the main view (50%), the critical systems view (30%), and a devmon weathermap (20%). The main view and the critical systems view are generated by an extra task running with bigger fonts and icon sizes.
I am considering putting the non-green view on as well (in the same column as the critical systems view).
However, there are still a number of problems: 1)I have gone as large as I can go with FONT tags and without CSS changes (it's a long time since I did any web development, and CSS was quite new then ...). 2)Some font sizes are hardcoded in the source code (e.g. event log on the bb2 page). While there is a MKBBACKFONT for the ack log (which I don't use), there is no MKBBLOGFONT. 3)The icons (at 64 pixels) are pixelating 4)The background images are too small (by over 3 *)
I managed to take a photo of our section of the video wall, as it's difficult to get an idea of just how big it is:
http://staff.telkomsa.net/~bgmilne/hobbit-videowall.jpg
(I've made a lot of other changes as well since this, but I don't have a current photo now).
I am prepared to try and fix some of these issues, e.g.: 1)Fix hardcoded fonts in source (e.g. use MKBBLOGFONT, or even MKBBACKFONT in the event log table) 2)Create some icon skins for various sizes (ideally in vector format in svn?)
However, if any other people have similar problems/requirements, I wouldn't mind some assistance.
However, I do want to try and fix some of this by today ..
Regards, Buchan
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For the background, try changing in *_header:
<BODY BGCOLOR="&BBBACKGROUND" BACKGROUND="&BBSKIN/bkg-&BBBACKGROUND.gif" TEXT="#D8D8BF" LINK="#00FFAA" VLINK="#FFFF44">
to:
<BODY BGCOLOR="&BBBACKGROUND" BACKGROUND="&BBSKIN/bkg-&BBBACKGROUND.gif" STYLE="background: #000000 url(&BBSKIN/bkg-&BBBACKGROUND.gif) repeat-y;" TEXT="#D8D8BF" LINK="#00FFAA" VLINK="#FFFF44">
In other words, add this STYLE to the BODY element: background: #000000 url(&BBSKIN/bkg-&BBBACKGROUND.gif) repeat-y;
It works with MSIE7 and Firefox 3. I haven't tried others, but I'm thinking it couldn't be worse. Both BGCOLOR and BACKGROUND are deprecated, so anything "modern" should be fine.
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:29 AM, Johan Sjöberg <johan.sjoberg at deltamanagement.se> wrote:
We have extended the background gifs (/gifs/bkg-*.gif) with black, to prevent them from repeating on high-resolution screens (my laptop is 1920x1280). I extended them to 1920 pixels wide, but you should be able to make them as wide as you like. But on your big screen, maybe the colored section to the left will be too small?
/Johan
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