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Hide buttons on tool bars

Hide buttons

Once Play The Web is properly configured, you would not want users to modify the configuration. You can prevent users from invoking the Configuration dialog box by hiding the configuration button.

To hide a button, open the Configuration dialog box, and select "Tool Run" tab.

In the list, select the "Config" line and click on the "Edit" button.

In the Properties dialog box, uncheck the "Visible" check box and click OK. The "Config" button will be hidden in the Screen saver tool bar.

Then, select the "Tool Nav" tab.

Again, select the "Config" line and click on the "Edit" button. Remove the "Visible" check box and click the "OK" button. Doing so, the "Config" button will be hidden in the Navigation tool bar.

Validate the Configuration dialog box using the "OK" button.

Once the "Config" button is hidden, you can't open the Configuration dialog box anymore from Play The Web. See below how to invoke the Configuration dialog box from Windows.

Hide tool bars

Using the technique described above, you can hide any other button in tool bars. You can even hide tool bars if each button is hidden.

You can also easily hide Screen Saver tool bar using the "What to do if the mouse moves" option in the General tab. Set this value to "Enter navigation mode" or "Quit Play The Web" and the tool bar will be useless, so it will be always invisible.

To hide the Navigation tool bar, you need to hide every button included on this tool bar.

The following sample uses techniques described in previous paragraphs to hide any button. So, in screensaver mode, when you move the mouse, Play The Web switches to navigation mode waiting for navigation. Then you can go from pages to pages in a full screen web browser. If you don't use the mouse anymore, automatic presentation starts again when the screensaver delay has expired. Click here to view the demo.

Of course, it is also easy to show again any button, unless you don't have access anymore to Configuration dialog box (see below).

Summon Configuration dialog box from Windows

Closing Play The Web

When a button is hidden, the corresponding feature is also disabled. For instance, if you hide "Quit" button in both tool bars, you will not be allowed to quit Play The Web anymore using "Esc" key.

So, if you need to allow closing Play The Web with no button displayed, you have to hide the Screen Saver tool bar using the "What to do if the mouse moves" option in the General tab. Set this value to "Enter navigation mode" or "Quit Play The Web" and the tool bar will be invisible.

Then, hide every button on the Navigation tool bar. With these settings, you will have no tool bar, but you will be able to quit Play The Web using "Esc" key.