@sdetweil well, that was easy and works great!.. gotta figure out how to have a div with a fill color to replace the black edges when the pics are not fulls screen. also the bottom edge of the pic is clipped by the bottom of the screen somehow… half the newsfeed line is over the clip line

I’d recommend trying to do it again using the description by MichMich https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/wiki/Auto-Starting-MagicMirror It is crystal clear from what I see, also describes what to do. "the doc for ‘pm2 startup’ doesn’t help me… ‘will give you the command u need to execute’ execute when, how? if unattended, who is ‘you’?" No offense, but btoh the doc and your terminal will show you exactly what to do. Copy a line of text the terminal throws out and execute it again. That’s the reason I’d suggest to do it again with a bit more patience. :-)

well, i found a solution… I modified the ImagePhotos.js to create the div once. instead of each time. this reduces the flash. added an onload handler for the image in the div., start with the image hidden the onload handler changes the just loaded image to the required opacity and transitions this over 1.25 seconds. also getting current image size, and size of screen and adjusting to not clip or zoom it then checks to see if there is more than ONE image in the div (current and just loaded)… if so, it hides the old image, and then deletes that image from the div. repeat for next image.

@mithatcak interesting

this fix is now added to the develop branch, and will be merged to master at some time. Thanks Mitch

@sean said in how to detect main window size via code: clientHeight thanks… duh, so easy!..

thanks… the image is not shown in the dom, it is shown in a separate ‘browserwindow’, floating over the dom. i just loadUrl the image into the window, after creating and positioning it. the mirror code doesn’t know the images are there pictorial calendar reminders. I have tested that the helper needs to do all this window mgmt The scheduler module does scheduling (compare db data to calendar entries), start/stop viewer(s), and provide indirect services to load images depending on their source (file, dropbox, google drive, one drive). The viewer module just walks thru a list of urls (getNext()) and opens a window hidden, loads image, hides old window, shows new window, deletes old window. (avoid dead window during load and, minimize screen flash)

@sdetweil Glad I could help you!