Main display

The main display is what appears in the client area of the frame. It represents the whole or part of the canvas that is visible in the scroll pane. It comprises a simple two-dimensional view of the cube with some Other elements.

When the scroll option is not enabled, the frame always opens with scroll bars absent on the scroll pane. When the scroll option is enabled, part or all of the bottom cube face is hidden from view and a vertical scroll bar appears when the frame is displayed in that manner. For cubes of size greater than six, the cube element of the main display is automatically resized to use the available height or width (whichever is the limiting direction) on the scroll pane. Available pixels in the vertical direction will usually determine the size of the cube component when the scroll option is not set. Unlike conventional maximized windows, a double-headed arrow appears when the mouse is moved to the edge of the frame, and always allows the frame to be resized when the frame has focus in Menu mode.

The Other elements within the main display are listed in the following table together with their location in the scroll pane.

Other item Location for scroll disabled Location for scroll enabled
Unravel picture (or optional "Unravel" text box) Top left Bottom left
"U-L-F-R-B-D" text box Top right Bottom right
Display of elapsed time from a scrambled start (when applicable) Bottom left Top left

All the Other elements are of fixed size in pixels. LCD monitors have a fixed or native resolution typically in the range 86 to 147 pixels/inch. Display at lower resolutions is possible by discarding some pixels or blending pixels together but image quality is sacrificed.

When CRT monitors are used, the resolution can easily be adjusted downwards while keeping the picture clarity intact (by adjusting the electron beam in the tube). However, in such cases the Other elements will increase in size as screen resolution is reduced. Because the scroll pane viewing area will increase marginally in size as resolution increases, the size of the cube element will marginally increase in size as resolution increases in such cases. As the screen resolution setting is lowered the Other items (cube picture and time display) will eventually become so large that they overlap the cube display.

The application has been designed to display properly for monitors having 800 x 600 pixel resolution or higher.

The frame always opens centred within the available area. On-top windows such as the Taskbar are excluded from the available area.