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Layout options

The layout tab is useful to define global properties of the main window and how additional windows should be managed.

Main window properties

Use the "Main window always on top" check box to set the main window as the top most window. This option can be used to prevent other windows to pop-up in front of the Play The Web main window.

When this box is checked, the tool bars will also be hidden by the main window. You should then select the "Enter navigation mode" option on mouse move event in the General tab.

Use the "Full screen" check box to define full screen status for the main window. This option is checked by default. When the main window is not full screen, you can resize it and change its position. When you save the properties in the Configuration dialog box, you also save the main window position.

For instance, if you use multiple monitors on a single computer, you could run Play The Web in a window on one monitor while working on the other one.

Multiple monitor support

When a single monitor is connected to the computer, the monitor part of this dialog box is disabled.

However, when two monitors are connected to the computer, this part of the dialog box is enabled:

You can then select the second monitor used by Play The Web to display the content through the Monitor list box.

You can also click on the "Choose Monitor" button: .

This button opens the "Choose Monitor" dialog box when you can select the monitor used for display.

Select the monitor where the content should be displayed by Play The Web and click "OK".

Update that is performed using the Choose monitor dialog box only applies to the current .wss Configuration file.

You can also configure Play The Web to send content for all .wss Configuration files to an alternate monitor by using the "DefaultMonitor" registry setting. For instance, if you want to display all content managed by Play The Web on the second monitor, enter "2" in the "DefaultMonitor" Windows registry setting.

Manage new windows

The "What to do on New Window event in Run mode?" option is useful to set the behavior of Play The Web when a page attempts to create a pop-up window. Three options are available:

• Open Internet Explorer
  Every pop-up window is created in an Internet Explorer window.
• Navigate in the same window
  In this mode, every pop-up window is displayed in the Play The Web main window, even if the target specifies a different window.
• No pop-up
  This is the default value. When this option is checked, every pop-up window is blocked.

The "What to do on New Window event in Nav mode?" option is useful to set the behavior of Play The Web when the user clicks on a hyperlink with a target window different from the current window. Three options are available:

• Open Internet Explorer
  This is the default value. A common Internet Explorer window is opened when the user clicks on a hyperlink that specifies a target window other than the current window.
• Navigate in the same window
  In this mode, every page is displayed in the Play The Web main window, even if the target specifies a different window.
• No pop-up
  When this option is checked, every click on a hyperlink with a target window different from the current window is canceled.

The "Always close pop-up windows that go behind the main window" can also be checked if pop-up windows are allowed. With this option, you ensure that hidden pop-ups are blocked to avoid the creation of too many windows.

The last option for Internet Explorer windows is "Close Internet Explorer windows when Web Screen Saver ends". If this option is checked, every Internet Explorer window (pop-up or not) is closed when the software ends.

Other settings

The "Remove vertical scroll bar in main window?" option manages the behavior of the vertical scroll bar. Three options are available:

• Never
  This is the default value. The vertical scroll bar is never hidden.
• Always
  The vertical scroll bar is always hidden in the main window. With this option, no matter the height of the HTML file, the vertical scroll bar will always be removed.
• Auto detect
  In this mode, Play The Web retrieves the height of the page and the height of the main window. If the page fits completely in the window, the vertical scroll bar is removed. If the page doesn't fit in the screen, the vertical scroll bar is kept.

The "Hide main window when a separate process is launched" should be checked if you display PowerPoint files. This option ensures that a separate process will not be hidden by the Play The Web main window because this main window will become invisible. If you do not check this option with a separate process, like the PowerPoint viewer, you may get a black empty screen instead of you PowerPoint file.

When displaying a PowerPoint file as a separate process and PowerPoint (POWERPNT.EXE) was open before on the desktop, the separate process is closed immediately and the show request is queued in PowerPoint that displays the slideshow. Therefore, the process seems to have finish (the separate process ID is no longer valid), but the slideshow is displayed anyway.

If you want that the actual process displaying the PowerPoint slideshow to be found among processes running on the desktop, check the "Smart find of the separate process when the initial process disappear (POWERPNT.EXE)" option. But, keep in mind that the POWERPNT.EXE process will be closed by the software when the slideshow display time will come to its end.

If this option is not checked and PowerPoint was already running on the desktop when Play The Web is launched, the first slideshow display request will be filled by the PowerPoint's existing process. The process newly created by Play The Web will stop immediately, so Play The Web will conclude that the current presentation is finished. It will therefore request display of the next PowerPoint presentation and the next one, but all of them will be queued in PowerPoint and they will be displayed only when the initial PowerPoint slideshow will actually end. The consequence is that a lot of PowerPoint presentation display requests will be queued until Play The Web ends. When Play The Web is closed, the user needs to hit the Esc key once for each slide show queued to get back to his desktop.

By default, this option is not checked, so an existing separate process will not be searched by Play The Web.

The "Force reload of a web page when it is in the web browser history" check box is useful to ensure that every web page displayed is always refreshed so its content is up-to-date, especially if that page was already displayed by Play The Web. By default, this option is not checked, so a page already displayed may not be refreshed if it is displayed another time.

The "Page order" list box should be used to define the order for the pages list in the page list tab. Two options are available:

• Default order (page list order)
  This is the default value. Pages are displayed according to the page list order from the page list tab.
• Random order
  When this option is selected, the pages from the page list are displayed in a random order.

The "Hide right click browser context menu for all users (HKLM)" check box can be checked to remove the context menu displayed with a right click in the browser window. If checked, this menu is not displayed anymore for all users of the desktop (local machine).

The current user should have write access to the [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Restrictions] registry key. Restart Internet Explorer and Play The Web for the restriction to take effect.

The "Hide right click browser context menu for the current user (HKCU)" check box removes the context menu displayed with a right click in the browser window for the current user only.

The current user should have write access to the [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Restrictions] registry key. Restart Internet Explorer and Play The Web for the restriction to take effect.