I'm getting frustratingly stuck on a quite simple problem. I run an html slideshow. I need it to be full screen (no toolbar, no topbar) at every moment.
In the background, a lot is getting done however. I got an app (Canon EOS Utility) that is regularly activated by applescript. Here is my problem : activating this program automatically quits the full screen mode (or presentation mode) in the browser. How can I stop this?
The full screen mode seems to be part of OS X (Mission Control) - it behaves the same way with every browser.
I tried Afloat 2.0 but this doesn't hide the toolbar and topbar.
Have a clue to solve this?
BTW I'm using Max/MSP for background process, if anything can be done with that.
Thanks !
M
Finally, I’ve solved my problem by not solving it !
The "EOS Utility" software, which was triggered by applescript, needed to be "activated" to work. That caused fullscreen to quit.
I’ve found this jem : gphoto2 (http://photolifetoys.blogspot.ca/2012/08/control-your-camera-with-gphoto2-via.html)
It can be used to tether a whole bunch of cameras via command lines. This, of course, doesn’t change the OS display.
So the full screen stays… !
This is good enough for now, for me… Just replying for the record, if it can help anyone !
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I have a website which looks good if viewed the way I designed it. Every time I visit it from Chrome on Android, I am given a prompt along the bottom of the screen to "Show Simplified View". If I click that prompt to actually see it in simplified view, the site will only display 1 news item (there are supposed to be 25 on a page), it removes all controls (log in, add news item, comments), and scrolling doesn't work anymore. There are multiple other problems as well (headlines/images/article excerpts are not matched together, color scheme is missing, etc.) This happens only on Google Chrome, no other browser I've tested does this.
I don't see the prompt to switch to simplified view on other sites. My preference would be to place a tag on my site to never show this prompt. I have googled around for that, but I have only found articles about how to turn the feature on from Chrome, nothing about how to disable the feature from the server side.
My second thought might be to work with this simplified view and get it functional for people who want to use it. However, I have read that it also blocks all advertising and my site is supported solely by ads, so this is a distant second if I absolutely can't prevent the prompt from appearing.
TO SUM UP:
How can I prevent the "Show simplified view" prompt from appearing or
Failing that, how do I set up my site to work with simplified view?
Replace P tags with div in your page. this mode is also known as Reader mode. Probably this answer might help you.
The answer I found for this was to change the font size based on the media width, and once the font size was big enough to be readable on the mobile device I was using, it stopped suggesting the simplified view. The exact code used was:
#media (max-width: 540px) {
body {
font-size:18px !important;
}
}
Simple enough.
Also check your viewport settings for mobile devices. I received this popup when I changed the initial scale of the viewport to 0.6.
Basically Google recognised that the font size is too small. Looks good to me but probably not for visitors without perfect eyesight.
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=0.6, maximum-scale=2">
In this case, changing initial-scale=1 will fix this
A much better solution I ended up with
p { display: table; }
Just change the paragraphs to any of the generic blocks in my case I made it a table.
Show Simplified Views prompts when there is more text, Chrome prompts if it thinks it is a paragraph website where user is to read (by detecting texts (more than 700 approx)
If you truncate or remove texts, and make it less. Chrome won't prompt.
G'day mate. There's a permanent solution. Go into chrome://flags and search 'reader mode' and disable both flags which has 'reader mode' on it's name. And then, it's done, you'll never be annoyed by that pop-up again(unless you will uninstall and reinstall that chrome browser and then. ........ .... you'll have to do it again).
Thanks mate,bye.
Chrome introduced splash-screens as a PWA feature to make it look and feel more like native apps. It generates the splash-screen from name, icon and bg_color in the web app manifest. More details here:
https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/10/splashscreen
https://developers.google.com/web/tools/lighthouse/audits/custom-splash-screen
While all of that is fine, there is no proper documentation on how long Chrome decides to keep the splash-screen visible.
Ideally I'd imagine that it should be till the point something is meaningful painted on the screen (just the above-the-fold stuff) but in my experience it seems like Chrome keeps this splash-screen for a quite long time (might as well be till page load?)
This is pretty bad for people browsing my website from slow connections - previously at least they could see something working and happening on the screen, now they just see a static image (splash-screen with icon and name) - they don't know how long it will take to open the web app, can easily get bored and drop-off. This is very risky.
Can I control when the splash-screen goes away or even disable it altogether?
You can register an event of DOMContentLoaded, which is the first event fired, even before your other stuff like images, css and all are still getting loaded. Using this, you can fade out / remove the splash screen even (may be) before when your first paint happens (depending on your site requirements/implementation). Check out an example here, where he tries to add an animation to the fading of the splash screen rather than a simple transition. You can definitely try removing the splash screen earlier on similar grounds.
P.S.: Couldn't find anything to disable/time out splash screen. Hence the work around!
It seems that your first page is taking too long to be ready (first paint), maybe you have:
A big HTML file
Loading stylesheets synchronously
Javascript take long time to settle
Check these things see if resolving each one could help.
You can see other PWA apps, like twitter how they are loading pretty much fast in webAPK and learn from them using chrome dev-tool on your desktop.
I'm an amateur web designer with HTML experience mostly. I'm building my own website for a hobby, and ran into this snag. I've only recently noticed it though, so I'm wondering if it has anything to do with the recent iOS update?
Like the title says, when I go to my website, everything is fine. Then I click on one of the links to the "Contact" page, let's say (or any of the links that take you to another page), and then hit the browser's back button to go back to the previous page, the button's image I had just clicked on ("Contact" button) has disappeared and I'm just left with the button's name I named it. This repeats for every button I click and then hit back in the browser. This only happens on mobile devices though (I've only had the opportunity to check on an Apple phone and iPad). It doesn't happen on my laptop. I've tried searching for answers to this, but can't find any. I've only just noticed this happening though, which leads me to believe it might be a software update issue? Although it's entirely possible I just never noticed before.
Here is my website so that anyone interested in helping can take a look and let me know what you think might be the problem/solution. Thank you very much for any help you may be able to provide.
https://www.atomicorchard.com/
It's okay on my end. Try optimizing your images and check your JavaScript. The problem may be occurred once that script is being executed. And try adding media queries.
This is a very weird thing that i've experienced . I've been working on a project lately www.bandness.com, which allows music groups and bands to upload their music. The artistic department has been very keen and precise and they've done an incredible work that allows the bands to have gorgeous profiles .
However, when on Chrome (i've noticed this only happens in chrome), when you enter a profile the background image doesn't load properly until you scroll over it or you "select" the div layer or the ones on top of it.
here are some examples of what i'm talking about
you need to select the layer so it works properly, and that is bugging annoying!!
here you have another example
and this is how the website should be seen without the bug in the left screen
Why does this happen?
The website is www.bandness.com, click on any of the groups where it says "TOP 5 GROUPS" or on the group for each song in "TOP 5 SONGS" and you'll probably spot what I'm talking about.
This has happened to me in chrome, on a macbook pro with the latest OS release. As well as in Windows 8. It bugs me because I have NO idea what is causing this and I fear a chrome bug.
How could it be fixed? Any suggestions are appreciated, I thought of using jQuery to make the layer dissappear/appear or something like that... but i'm unsure of whether this will work.
Ok, so I'm posting this as a help for anyone that suffers the same consequences of this bug at any time.Bear in mind the answer implies using jQuery.
As Christopher kindly pointed out earlier, I tried to do $(SELECTOR).hide().show(), but that didn't make it.
Then I decided to try with $(SELECTOR).hide(100,function(){$(SELECTOR).show()}); ensuring that the effect of showing only happens once the div layer has dissapeared.(that way it actually appears and dissappears).
The solution worked, however this should not be needed and it doesn't provide an answer to why this is happening, but it "kinda" makes the trick .
$(SELECTOR).fadeOut(100,function(){ $(SELECTOR).fadeIn()}); makes this happen in a much fancier way. Again as I said this isn't a fix, it's just a workaround that might get you somewhere if you ever suffer this problem!
i would like to create some Flex Desktop Application that will be always in front of other applications (appWindow.alwaysInFront = true). It should looks like tiny bar at the top of the screen (eg. width = screenWidth, height = 50px). I know how to do that. But I have problem with other applications - when i maximize them, they are under my application. Is there any way how to say to the system, that maximized resolution for other apps is other than default?
Thanks for your answer.
You cannot do this with flash code, because you're interfering with external applications. At best, you could write some native code in another language and use AIR to execute that code but I can't really see that working out well, or at least being anything less than a massive undertaking.
If you do want to attempt this however, you can find some info about executing native code from AIR here: How can i on button press execute a command in the command prompt and get back the output in ActionScript?