Navigating, the basics
In the beginning of this lesson, we assume that you are using the native Storga client, with a mouse or two-button trackpad. We will see at the end the specificities related to the use of a touch screen or a web browser.
Initial view scale setting
When you open the Storga client, the first operation consists of ensuring that the display scale is optimal, ie that the characters are neither too small nor too large.
You can zoom the content by pressing the 'Ctrl' key plus the ' ' key on the keyboard.To zoom out, press 'Ctrl' plus '-'
When the scale is not exactly one, it is displayed on the right of the screen. For example 'x1.2'.
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The same adjustments can be made with the mouse, using the 'Configure' icon on the right of the screen to bring up the column of icons containing the positive and negative zoom. Once the correct scale has been found, click on the white cross on a black background to remove the additional column of icons.
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Once the right scale of visualization has been found, it is possible to make it permanent. To do this, click the configure icon on the left of the screen, then click the 'General client' button, and in the 'Software configuration' section, on the 'User interface' line, adjust the 'Customer scale' field. visualization'. You must restart the Storga client for the new base scale to be taken into account.
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Move inside a document
The native Storga client does not use scrollbars to allow page content to be scrolled when the screen is too small to display all of the content.
To scroll vertically, you can, when it exists, use the mouse wheel.
The standard scrolling mode of the native Storga client is to press the right mouse button, then move without letting go. This very practical convention is also used in some 3D modeling software, such as OpenSCAD.
The Storga window is often split into several parts. A central block, a panel on the left, a panel on the right, and sometimes a panel at the top and another at the bottom. Each of these panels can be unrolled independently of the others. In other words, when you press the right mouse button, then move it, the panel under the mouse cursor scrolls.
Switch between documents
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Storga's browsing mode is very similar to that of a web browser. You enter the sub-pages by following links, or by clicking on a button. Go back using the 'Back' icon.
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Pitfalls for the novice user
Here are the three points on which users stumble most frequently during their first use of Storga:
When you hover over an icon, or certain fields, a help line is displayed at the bottom of the Storga window, as opposed to other systems where the help is a bubble that appears right next to it, so remember to look in the right place.
Similarly, when an action causes an error, the message is usually displayed at the bottom of the Storga window. Conversely, when an action asks for confirmation, it is usually asked at the top of the Storga window, and not by a popup window in the middle of the screen. In summary, with Storga, there are no windows that come over the top, so when nothing is happening, remember to look up and down the window.
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If nothing more responds at the page level, it is probably that the connection with the Storga server is broken. To resume navigation, display the navigation bar at the top of the window, using the icon representing the earth on the right of the window, then click on the reload button. If you are using a simple web browser instead of the native Storga client, simply press your browser's reload button which is usually also represented by an arrow in a circle.
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View multiple documents simultaneously
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Storga uses tabs, like your web browser.
They are materialized on the right side of the Storga window.
However, their operation is quite different.
With Storga, there are always exactly 12 tabs.
With Storga, you cannot open a link in a new tab. Conversely, you can copy the content of one tab to another, including its browsing history, by dragging and dropping from the source tab number to the new tab number. It's much more practical.
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You can simultaneously display the content of several tabs on the screen, ie, in most cases, simply cut the Storga window in two.
This functionality is managed via the 'Windows' icon on the right of the Storga window.
When the Storga window is thus split, on the left of the screen, only the menus corresponding to the active tab are displayed.
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The special case of touch screens
You can change the scrolling and drag and drop conventions of the native Storga client to make it usable with a touch screen. For this, in the Storga manual, see the article 'The basics of the Storga user interface'
→ Storga UI Basics
Using a simple web browser
When instead of the native Storga client you use a simple web browser, such as Firefox, several things change in the user interface:
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Scrolling is done using the scrollbars instead of using the right mouse button.
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Tabs are managed by the browser.
In particular, you cannot 'copy' one tab to another as the Storga client allows, because web browsers do not offer this function.
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The positioning and on-screen rendering of the various elements is a little more approximate.
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Entering text in Storga's paragraph blocks is chaotic.
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Commands and keyboard navigation (Alt...) only work in a few cases.
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In general, the response times are longer, and the comfort of use is ultimately less overall.
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