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Allowing screen centering on edge tiles in the map.

The JS associated with the HTML canvas-container element allows only a maximum band of 125 pixels off map before you can no longer drag the map. This prevents you from moving edge grid tiles to the center of your screen. This leads to difficulty in managing the map on large monitors where the action focus is crowded up in a corner of the screen. I've tried to make my own bookmarklet to set the fixed position of canvas-container to be deeper right, however a wide variety of screen update events lead to it immediately resetting to 125px maximum. Is this something that is adjustable in preferences? Or something that can be modified with a Plus subscription? This is a glaring UX issue that's been bothering me for a while and I honestly might pay subscription if it would give me access to an API that would let me fix this issue myself.
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Gold
Forum Champion
Kevin, could you make the Page Size larger in units, and center your map content, thus creating more of your own additional margin within the page? You can set the background color (grey or black works nicely for a margin/border, or light green for the appearance of grass). Wiki docs, <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/Page_Settings#Page_Size" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/Page_Settings#Page_Size</a>
Gold said: Kevin, could you make the Page Size larger in units, and center your map content, thus creating more of your own additional margin within the page? You can set the background color (grey or black works nicely for a margin/border, or light green for the appearance of grass). Wiki docs, <a href="https://wiki.roll20.net/Page_Settings#Page_Size" rel="nofollow">https://wiki.roll20.net/Page_Settings#Page_Size</a> This workaround is at the game-scope, meaning a player cannot change it. It requires that a DM make the change and that all players need to agree to how wide they want the margins. It's also not an ideal solution to the issue. It results in gawdy additional grid lines even without the background color change. If the next solution to this would be to remove grid lines, then the problem is how do we get both Grid Lines and better margin? Is there otherwise no way to solve this issue?
It's been a week and this has dropped off the first page. I'd at least like some confirmation on whether or not this is something remediable through subscription or API. If not, is there anywhere to request this as a feature?
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Edited 1501518979
The Aaron
Roll20 Production Team
API Scripter
This is a feature of the client-side rendering, and thus the API will have no effect on it. Likewise, the rendering is not dependent on subscription level, so subscribing won't change the behavior. Suggestions:&nbsp; <a href="https://app.roll20.net/forum/category/385189" rel="nofollow">https://app.roll20.net/forum/category/385189</a>