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How To: Page Scrolling - Vertical
Scrolling is a unique method of expanding a setup's visibility. There are two methods of scrolling a page:
- Horizontal - Swiping left-to-right or right-to-left will change the viewable page on the user's screen. This is, of course, dependent on the number of “pages” the user has created. Many launchers have this capability. In Total Launcher, see Page Creation for an overview.
- Vertical - Swiping up-down is a unique capability of Total Launcher. It expands the screen's real estate. Some have said it allows for easy access to data objects/widgets which are less frequently used and therefore unnecessary to be continuously view. Few launchers have this. Read below on how make this possible.
To see an example video of a vertically scrolling page with objects place below the normal viewable screen, click here. This video uses Total Launcher's scroll the current page to launcher action with scroll points set a 0%, 25%, 50%, 100%, 125%. A review of this launcher action can be seen here,
To set up the launcher to vertical page scrolling:
- Go to the Main Menu (see How to Enter Edit Mode)
- Scroll left or right to the view the page desired for vertical scrolling
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- The Page Settings dialog will open
- uncheck to box “Fit the content to the screen height (make not scrollable) and tap OK
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- Tap the page to active it (it is now the screen)
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- select any desired item (layout, widget, graphic) … for simplicity in this instruction select graphic
- select text
- select default
- “text” now appears on the page and it is selected
- this object must be moved below the bottom of the page. There are 2 methods: Manual (hard) and Calculated (easy)
- Manual
- Tap and hold the “text” and drag to the bottom of the page as low as possible and release
- swipe up the screen
- repeat the previous 2 steps until the object is “low enough” to provide the amount of vertical page scrolling desired
- Calculated
- the Edit dialog opens
- the X/Y data represents the location of the object
- X being the x-axis or the horizontal position
- Y being the y-axis or the vertical position
- this reviewer's mobile device screen specification is 1024×2400, yours may vary
- the “text” is initially positioned almost center of the screen with the measures: X=519; Y=1142, both showing the upper left point of the “text” object in pixels
- tap the Y location to open the calculator, clear the existing and enter 3000. Tap Ok
- the “text” object has disappeared … scroll down to find it
- A vertically scrolling screen has been created
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