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Panning

What is panning?

The pan function lets you view wide diagrams (panoramas) on a narrower screen for example if you have a long production line that you wish to represent. Instead of using two separate diagrams or two monitors you can create a single wide diagram and then use the pan function to select which section of the production line to be viewed on the single monitor.

How to set up panning

To use the pan function a few things must be set up before.

1. First you must enable multi-screens in IGSS. This can be done by selecting the Format tab and clicking Multer-Screen Setup. At least two horizontal screens must be enabled in order to use pan. For more info see Multi-monitor support at a glance
   
2. Check that the screen resolutions for the multi-screens are as desired since these will determine the maximum allowed width of the diagram. For example if you have two monitors of 1280 x 1024 pixels the maximum diagram width will be 2560 pixels.
   
   
3. Create the diagram and select the width required.

NB. The extra screen(s) must be disabled in Windows in order to make IGSS use the pan function. IGSS may have to be restarted if changes are made in Windows in before these actions takes effect.

Click here to view an example with pan

How to open the Pan window

The Pan window is as default always automatically opened on a diagram if the enabled (in Windows) screen(s) are not wide enough to display the whole diagram.

The Pan window can manually be opened by selecting the menu item View and Show Pan Control or by clicking the small button located in the lower right corner.

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