# Template Canvas Scaling **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Created:** [April 13, 2017, 4:53pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/template-canvas-scaling/14046 "2017-04-13T16:53:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![zacslade](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/zacslade/32/3587_2.png) [@zacslade](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/zacslade)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2018, 10:28pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/template-canvas-scaling/14046/3 "2018-01-26T22:28:05Z")
Yo, thanks for the bump. For that project, in lieu of answers, we ended up making it so that the user couldn't resize the window. Then we figured out the use-cases for different window sizes and programmatically resized the window and repopulated the canvas appropriately. This forum thread is worth looking at, though. Looking into the topics discussed here might help you find a method that suits you. > [@How to maintain aspect ratio in a resizeable popup window?](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-to-maintain-aspect-ratio-in-a-resizeable-popup-window/14614): > > I’m trying to create a popup window that will contain an IP Camera Viewer object in it. What I’d like to do is set the popup window to be resizeable and maintain its aspect ratio when resized so that the camera viewer also maintains the correct aspect ratio. I could just set the layout mode of the IP Camera View to relative, and check the “Maintain Aspect Ratio” option, but that will leave me with blank space in the popup around the object if I resize it. I’d rather that the window itself mainta… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/template-canvas-scaling/14046)._