Can Wildfire be set to default to full screen in Windows?

In Pro/e logic, it already is. This is because Pro/e is still dominated by Menu Manager methodology. Unless and until this is completely purged from the PTC design philosophy, screen design will continue to allow for Menu Manager type menus/windows which pop and flop and slop and slip and slide and resize and hide all over the place and all over each other; until such time as it completely dumps the whole Menu Manager approach, inherited from Unix, and fully adopts a GUI approach (including some sophistication in screen design which, in Pro/e, is extremely crude), full screen could, not only, NOT be the default, it would be, as it is, quite useless and pure illusion. Pro/e will demonstrate this to you every time you "lose" some incidental 'window' (some silly little acknowledgement, perhaps) behind the main graphics window and you can't figure out why nothing is responding. It's not a "glitch" in Pro/e or Windows; it's an anti-GUI design philosophy. And Windows fullscreen is the most basic element of GUI. It is spawning windows, windows windows everywhere windows, everything is windows, to undermine GUI, mock and belittle GUI, belittle mass culture, belittle consumer products, belittle the mass base of Windows. Pro/e will be fullscreen when PTC ~ it's management and programmers ~ get over their essentially elitist mentality and decide to be a really successful commercial product.

whoops, I think we got a runon sentence here (AKA, a rant). It musta been that beer!!!!!!

For Wildfire 2.0 add this to your config.pro

OPEN_WINDOW_MAXIMIZED YES

Good catch, Brooke! Still, I hestitate to recommend it. Much less as a default. I've tried many times over the past 7-8 years of using Pro/e to treat it like a full screen-cable program. With Dashboard, it's getting there. But it's still such a hodgepodge of interfaces, dominated by the MM approach, that it gets very frustrating, moving menu windows that are in the way of an icon or check box, or resizing windows or finding a message window that popped behind the graphics window. All of which gets WORSE when you try to use the program fullscreen. But, hey, to each his own. If you want fullscreen as the default, here it is. BTW, this does work for the first window opened. How about subsequent windows?

It seems to work in WF2. Changes Default window size to a screen filling window (not a Windows Maximized window). I might run with it a while someday and see how I like it.

I agree with your reservation about using it; things will get lost behind the main window.

FWIW, I set up an independant, outside the main window model tree. Took some time to get set up and to get used to (everything compromises something). I sorta like it; uses the dead space reserved for menu manager, is relatively easy to get out of the way if something hides behind it and maximizes graphics window area if not working with layers (they stay in the Navigation window), etc.

I run two monitors from an Nvidia Gforce4 board. This way when WF2 is full screen, any pop ups are on the second monitor and not hidden behind the main window. Another advantage is that tutorials and help screens can be run on the second monitor without blocking any of the main window.

Peter

Jeff Howard wrote:

Thanks for the list Brooke, your email bounced, how do I add this hidden setting?

Mike

Just open your config.pro using a text editor and add the line exactly as shown. Restart Pro/E and is should work. I used it for a while, but since Wildfire still uses menu's I went back to the default size.

The email I sent you was a listing of all of the hidden pro e options.