How do I add a scroll bar to a flip chart page?

[mushty]

How do I add a scroll bar to a flipchart page? Please help I am writing a playscript and want to be able to move down the flipchart page to get more on.


Thank you:eek: ???? +wave+

[jtw521]

Theres a scroll bar on there already on the bottom of the right hand side. You need to change the page length, double click on the screen and choose properties, select position and change page length to 2000 or however long you want it.


You can also set long pages as default Orange Man - Studio settings - fliphart

[101325]

This site just gets better! and better!

You must have read my mind on that one.

[Riverrun]

Yeah, it's a great site. I've been wondering how to solve this very problem myself and now I know.:D

[Nigel Pearce]

OK.
How about this little known facility?...

Main Menu --> Flipchart --> New --> Custom

On the Custom Page dialog, ensure your 'Frame Size' is set to 'Screen Size'.

Now move the vertical slider down to the bottom and the horizontal slider to the left. Your frame count will be something like 1 x 42. Click OK.

Your newly created flipchart now contains 1 page that is as wide as your display but 42 times its height ! Basically it is a huge vertical drawing surface.

OK. Next thing.
Go into Studio Settings --> Flipchart.

Ensure you tick 'Page frame guidelines' and 'Page panning'.

Click OK and return to the flipchart.

Notice that the edges of the flipchart window now have a dotted lined area. This is your interactive panning area. Regardless of which tool you currently have selected, moving the pen into the dotted edges of the page will allow you to click and drag more of the page into view. So you can now write on the page, then drag a bit more page up into view, carry on writing, drag more page up into view, etc, etc. You can also drag down from the top panning area to reveal earlier work.

What we have done here is to try to simulate the old 'roll over' whiteboards, with the dotted areas behaving like the horizontal bar.

NB. The scrollbars also work here, but the panning areas provide you with better 'panning accuracy'.

This way of working is ideal where you are making lots of notes for the audience to copy. It allows you to pace the view for your audience without having to turn to new pages in the flipchart.

One other thing, back in Custom Flipchart, if you move the horizontal slider fully to the right and the vertical slider to the bottom, you now create a flipchart page that is effectively 31 times wider and 42 times higher the size of your screen. The panning areas now let you move all over this huge drawing surface in any direction.

When you are working like this, the Zoom Tool really comes into its own. When you zoom out you will see each 'page frame', ie each portion of the page that will fit the screen exactly. You can then double click on any page frame with the Zoom Tool, to bring the chosen frame into view such that it fits exactly on the screen.

With a page this big, you could author some really interesting flipcharts. One that springs to mind would be to show how big the Solar System is.

Have a Custom flipchart 31x1 (ie very wide). Tiled starmap background. Add an image of the sun to the first frame and the planet images at suitable positions on the other frames, ending with Pluto (or maybe not !) on the 31st frame.
Now use the Zoom Tool to quickly zoom out and then double click into the each of the planets to focus in on them. Panning left and right will show the vast expanse from sun to pluto.

It makes me want to take up teaching !

[Dave Harrington]

This is excellent Nigel- I've always used a long page to create extra space to scroll up to.
The only thing I can't seem to do, is have subsequent pages have the same size as the first?

[Nigel Pearce]

Version 3.

When you turn to a new page, version 3 (Studio/Primary) will give you a page that is the same size as the one you are turning away from.

Will also apply when you insert new pages. ie the new page you create will be the same size as the one you are currently looking at when you perform the action.

[normal]

I played with this and (I have activeprimary) and I went to page scale and chose 400% it did give me the scroll bars...however when I went to one of my other flip charts it had changed that also to the 400%. When you make a change to one flip chart does it affect all of the others also? I noticed this when I went to change how the pages turned form one to the other. Thanks. I am learning so much and yet so much to learn :)
Norma

[scaulfield]

I like to do what normal was talking about.

Write your text in the smallest possible font. Then use your zoom tool to zoom into your text. Now you can click and move your screen around, or use the scroll bars.