Learn/App & Interface/Interface
Fullscreen Mode
Updated v2.4.9At a glance
- View → Fullscreen, or press F11 — JetCad3 fills the screen and your OS keeps running underneath
- Brings the JC3 Appliance interface with it: in-app menu bar, strip clock, and dropdowns drawn inside the window
- A ▦ Start panel with Files and Terminal, plus Exit Fullscreen and Quit
- Your network, displays and power stay with your operating system — JetCad3 never touches them
- It remembers: leave it fullscreen and it opens fullscreen next time
- Quitting from the panel still prompts for unsaved work
- Touchscreen PCs can turn on the on-screen keyboard under Settings → Display
View → Fullscreen — or just press F11 — fills the screen with JetCad3. What makes it worth using is not the extra pixels: fullscreen brings the JC3 Appliance interface with it, so you get the dedicated-machine experience on a computer that is still, underneath, your own.
What you get
- An in-app menu bar. File, Edit, View and the rest, drawn in JetCad3's own theme inside the top strip. On a Mac the system menu bar hides itself in fullscreen, so this is the difference between having menus and hunting for them at the top edge of the screen.
- A clock. In the top strip, where the taskbar clock you just covered up used to be. Click it for a calendar.
- Dropdowns inside the window. Every menu renders as part of JetCad3 rather than as a separate floating window, so nothing lands in the wrong place or behind the app.
The Start panel
The ▦ button opens a panel with the two tools that make sense when JetCad3 is filling the screen:
- Files — the full JetCad3 file browser, the same one behind every Open and Save.
- Terminal — a real shell, in JetCad3's theme, running as you. It keeps your session when you close the window.
Below them sit Exit Fullscreen and Quit JetCad3.
And nothing else, deliberately. On a JC3 Appliance the same panel also manages the network, the displays and the power button — because there JetCad3 is the operating system and nothing else can. On your computer those belong to your OS, which is one keystroke away. JetCad3 does not reach for them.
Quitting from the panel goes through the same save prompts as quitting any other way — unsaved work is never lost to it.
Getting back out
Press F11 again, use View → Fullscreen, or pick Exit Fullscreen from the ▦ panel. On a Mac the green button and Ctrl+Cmd+F work too, and JetCad3 keeps up with them.
It remembers
There is no setting to hunt for — the menu item is the setting. Quit while fullscreen and JetCad3 opens fullscreen next time. Quit while windowed and it opens windowed.
Touchscreens
Shop PCs with a touchscreen and no keyboard can turn on the same on-screen keyboard the appliance uses, under Settings → Display. Choose Always — Auto only shows the keyboard on hardware that reports having no physical keyboard, which a desktop always does.