# Showing One of My Open Windows as Full Screen

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/showing-one-of-my-open-windows-as-full-screen/22285>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** python, scripting\
**Created:** [February 1, 2019, 12:14pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/showing-one-of-my-open-windows-as-full-screen/22285 "2019-02-01T12:14:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![witman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d2c977/32.png) [@witman](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/witman)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2019, 6:13pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/showing-one-of-my-open-windows-as-full-screen/22285/6 "2019-02-01T18:13:14Z")

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Would this solution work for you?

> [@East Docked Slide-Out - How to?](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/east-docked-slide-out-how-to/18778/6):
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> Create a floating window, and “dock” it to wherever you want it Make it not opaque. Remove all mouse listeners from the window. Create your menu, either in a group or template, place on this non opaque window Use system.gui.transform to move in and out

I haven't tried this, but this post further up in the same thread may be more what you want--directly setting the size on the windows:

> [@East Docked Slide-Out - How to?](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/east-docked-slide-out-how-to/18778/9):
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> Looks like I didn’t do my research; system.gui.transform() requires that the component to be manipulated is an Ignition component, which prevents you from modifying more basic Java objects like the window/root container. You can call setSize explicitly - what you’d have to do is shrink the ‘main’ window, and ‘grow’ the docked window to compensate.

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