Table Mode

You can configure MT Showcase to run on touchscreen tables by enabling table mode in your app. In this mode, MT Showcase automatically detects which side of the table the user is on when they tap a widget, open a menu, or place a Codice card on the screen. It then rotates screen content to face the user.

All the content widgets, including the various image, PDF and video widgets, plus the finger menu and teaser menu support table mode.

MT Showcase in table mode showing widget rotation

MT Showcase in table mode. When a user taps an Image Viewer widget (1), the widget rotates to face the user.

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MT Showcase table mode with rotated widget

Table mode example showing content rotated towards the user.

Enable Table Mode

Follow these steps:

  1. Edit a structure.

    1. Click Structures in the left-hand menu.

    2. Click the structure you want to edit. For example, My First Structure. The Editing a Structure screen appears.

  2. In the Editing a Structure screen, click the widget you want to edit.

  3. In the right-hand attributes pane, go to the Rotate widget towards hand attribute. Or, for finger menus and teaser menus, go to the Rotate menu towards hand attribute.

    1. Select Use a fixed value.

    2. Select the Enabled check box.

    3. Click Save.

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    Rotate widget towards hand attribute

    Rotate widget towards hand attribute in the widget attributes pane.

Note

Alternatively, edit the Rotate widget towards hand attribute in the Table Mode theme defaults.

Enable Codice Support for Table Mode

(Optional) You can also configure Codice handling to support table mode. For example, you can rotate Codice content to face the user. You can also close Codice content when the user lifts their Codice marker from the screen.

Note

Codice content refers to widgets launched when a user presents a Codice marker on the screen.

  1. Click Themes in the left-hand pane.

  2. In the Themes screen, click the theme you want. The Editing a theme screen opens automatically.

  3. In the Editing a theme screen, go to the Theme defaults pane and click the Table mode defaults set. In the main pane, the Table mode defaults set expands automatically to display the default attributes.

  4. Edit the following attributes:

    • Move contents with the Codice: When this attribute is enabled, widgets launched by a Codice card automatically rotate to face the user.

      Note

      In technical terms, the Codice content rotates to match the orientation of the Codice marker.

    • Dismiss contents when Codice is lifted: When this attribute is enabled, widgets launched by a Codice card are closed when the user lifts the Codice from the screen.

    • Codice rotation offset: This attribute is provided to correct the orientation of Codice markers printed upside down on business cards or attached the wrong way around to tangible user interfaces. Generally, you only edit this attribute if instructed to do so by MultiTaction support staff.

    For each attribute, click the help button for more details.

  5. In the Editing a theme screen, go to the Codice detector component and edit the following attributes:

    • Rotate personal space towards Codice: When this attribute is enabled, the user's personal space automatically rotates to face the user.

    • Codice rotation offset: See the description in the previous step.

  6. Click Save.