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I don't know if it's possible, but can MS detect if I'm using tablet mode or not? I would like to have a little bit different setting while in tablet mode compared to desktop mode with keyboard and mouse. One example is text size in Library view, I need bigger for tablet mode but smaller while tablet mode is off, another different Song title formating or dark mode on/off. Maybe two sets of settings based on tablet mode on/off?
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Apparently I can detect if "Touch mode" is enabled versus "mouse mode", which appears to translate to tablet mode being on versus off. So in theory I could start introducing features for this. To handle what you are describing, I would basically have to force an application restart if the tablet mode changes in order to process a completely different list of settings files. I also doubt most users would expect to have to set all of their settings differently for tablet mode versus pc mode, so this introduces some potential usability issues (or I would have to make this feature optional). I have to be very careful about making the settings files incompatible with Android though for people that want to share settings that way. So I can't modify the existing format... this would also mean that if you are creating a backup file, you would have to think about which set of settings files you want to include in the backup file for android. I wouldn't be able to store both sets of settings files and still be compatible with Android.
I think a better approach may be to significantly limit the scope of which things can be set independently for tablet mode. If I only support having like five different settings be different between the modes, I can handle those differently on Windows than Android. There would still be some minor compatibility issues between and Android and Windows though if the settings are restored from a backup (as those settings files wouldn't have the different tablet mode information).
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01-17-2017, 04:31 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-17-2017, 04:33 PM by NeoCZ.)
Ok, i understand problems that rise from my request. I need to think how many things I would like to have different in those two modes, will write this as soon as I get back to my SP4 and try setting up desktop version of settings and see what I would like to change...
Another idea - this might be a part of performance mode you already have. Users might define few settings they would like to be different while performing to what they prefer when editing songs.
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