Display Settings (Server)

Configure the global appearance of UI elements for the Newlook Server instance. In particular, Display Settings can be used to specify the skin used by the current instance, configure global color/font schemes, add system-wide backgrounds, configure the display of menus and specify the type of scaling used by Newlook Server.

Access Display Settings via the following URL: <server instance URL>/Settings/Display.

SCALING | GRAPHICAL APPEARANCE | SKINS | BACKGROUND | MENUS

Scaling

Setting	Description
Screen scaling factor	Specify the screen scaling factor used to render screens in Newlook Server.
Maintain default font aspect ratio on 24x80 screens	Maintains the default aspect ratio of fonts on 24x80 screens. This affects the font size selected to fit within the physical control's dimensions after the physical control dimensions have been chosen for the given form size.
Maintain default font aspect ratio on 27x132 screens	Maintains the default aspect ratio of fonts on 27x132 screens. This affects the font size selected to fit within the physical control's dimensions after the physical control dimensions have been chosen for the given form size.

Graphical Appearance

Graphical schemes created in Newlook Developer are not used by Newlook Server as it has its own graphical settings. It is possible however, to import the contents of a Newlook graphical scheme file (.NLG) into Server's Graphical Settings.

Open Graphical Settings (<server instance URL>/Settings/GraphicalAppearance).
Click the Import Scheme button.
Click Import Scheme File... and browse to the file you wish to import.

Change the fonts, colors, scaling and skins used by this Newlook Server instance to display graphical forms.

Alternatively, you can specify global colors and fonts that will be applied globally to various categories of controls for the current Server instance. For more information about specifying global color and font styles in your application refer to Color Settings.

Skins (Server)

A skin is a series of files that work in combination to determine the appearance of your Server-based solution.

A skin controls the following aspects:

The position and appearance of function keys on the screen.
The layout of elements on the screen, including the runtime window (which is the equivalent to the screen you see when you open the runtime client in Newlook Developer).
The position, appearance of other screen functionality like screen titles and clickable buttons.

There are two default skins shipped with Newlook Server: Postmodern and Workspace. You can select the skin that you wish to use for the current Server session by selecting it in Skins Settings <server instance URL>/Settings/Skins). It is also possible to create your own skin and import it via the Import Skin file tool on the Skins settings page. For information about creating a custom Server skin file, please contact [email protected].

Postmodern skin	Workspace skin

Background

Use these settings to change the default background for graphical forms in Newlook Server.

Setting	Description
Picture	Specifies an image file to be displayed in the form background. Newlook supports SVG, PNG, GIF (including animated GIFs), JPEG, and ICO image files.
Alignment	Specifies how the image will be aligned in the form.
Color	Specifies the color mapping used to display the background image.
Quality	Determines the image quality.
Size	Determines the manner in which the image is sized in the form background.
Tile	Determines whether the imaged is tiled in the form background (only applicable if Size is set to Tile).
Opacity	Specifies the opacity of the picture in the form background.

Menus

Use these settings to change the way the current Newlook Server instance displays graphical application menus. Newlook Server supports SVG, PNG, GIF (including animated GIFs), JPEG, and ICO image files.