GETTING NEURON TO OPERATE IN FULL SCREEN MODE

If you decide to use Neuron as your distribution method, you will likely realize in no time at all that trying to get your book running in Full Screen mode does not do what you want it to do.

When ToolBook is running inside of a browser window, the browser is seen by ToolBook as the Screen Area...so when your book tries to size to Full Screen it simply fills the area in the browser window rather than the area of your actual screen. Although this is appropriate behavior for Web content, it is not necessarily the behavior you want. 

So, how can you get around this?

Although the mainWindow of ToolBook is limited to the size of the browser window, viewers that you define within ToolBook as Popup type viewers are permitted to utilize the entire screen.

So the basic ideas for getting Neuron to use the Full Screen is to ensure that you open a popup viewer and show your book in that viewer instead. Your mainWindow will also be open but it will be UNDER this popped up viewer where the user can't see it.

Here the the basic steps to doing this:

1. Create a new viewer (use the Object menu...Viewer option) and tell it NOT to create a new page/background.
   
   NOTE: It is very important to configure your viewer so that the "Hide when instance is deactivated" setting is disabled. If you leave this setting on, your popup viewer will not be seen for more than an instant before it disappears.
   
   
2. Give it a name of some sort ("myViewer" will do), and ensure it is a POPUP type viewer.
   
   
3. Add some code to your book script to force open that viewer and maximize it when the book loads, something like:

to handle enterBook
  vwr = viewer "myViwer"
  open vwr
  state of vwr = maximized
  show vwr
  forward
end

That's it. This should result in the Browser showing page 1 just like it normally would but on top of the browser window will be another window (the viewer) also showing page 1, which happens to be maximized.