Screen dock not resizable

CE-Programming / CEmu

Third-party TI-84 Plus CE / TI-83 Premium CE emulator, focused on developer features

https://ce-programming.github.io/CEmu/

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Screen dock not resizable #380

Closed sdnjack closed 3 years ago

sdnjack commented 3 years ago

On a lower resolution screen (1366 x 768) the screen dock is too big to allow for the keypad dock to be placed underneath. I use CEmu as a teaching aid and would like it to look as much like a real calculator as possible. Since I can't resize the screen dock, I have to have the keypad dock next to the screen, which looks weird to the students. Ideally, you could create a "full calculator" dock that is resizable for this situation.

Edition Windows 10 Enterprise Version 20H2 Installed on ‎9/‎18/‎2020 OS build 19042.746 Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.551.0 Hardware HP Probook x360 11 G2 EE
CEmu v1.3

mateoconlechuga commented 3 years ago

CEmu is currently undergoing a rewrite of the GUI with all the feedback we've had. This is a planned feature, and hopefully it turns out looking better, so stay tuned :)

Stephan-P commented 3 years ago

@sdnjack I've been using CEmu as a teaching aid for quite some years on a low-res laptop and it works just fine.

Enable UI Edit mode
Open the docks "Settings", "Keypad" and "Screen". Make sure to close the others.
In "Settings" adjust the scale to 75% or 80% (I can't remember exactly. I'm on a hi-res laptop now.)
Arrange the Keypad dock below the Screen dock. This may require some ultra precise positioning, but at some point it will snap itself below the Screen dock.) Do not mind that they are not of the same width at this point.
Close the Settings dock so you're left with just the Screen and the Keypad snapped below it.
Right Mouse Click the Screen and disable the UI edit mode
Now carefully resize the CEmu window size so that Screen dock and Keypad dock are of the same width and align vertically
Shut down CEmu and restart it again and Presto, there's your TI-84 CE-T emulator for classroom instructions
Optionally attach the CEmu icon to the taskbar

sdnjack commented 3 years ago

Thanks, that helps a lot. I didn't know about the scaling.

johann-petrak commented 3 years ago

Does not work for me at all - when dragging the screen/keypad, it can only get arranged to the side or so that it will replace it and they get arranged as tabs. No luck at all stacking them so they are both part of the same window

adriweb commented 3 years ago

Make sure to have enough space by pre-resizing the main window to the maximum height before, and making the keypad window smaller before dragging it below. I did it less than 5 minutes ago from a fresh install, it works well when following these instructions.