Slate

The Slate prefab offers a thin window style control for displaying 2D content, for example plain text or articles including media. It offers a grabbable title bar as well as Follow Me and Close functionality. The content window can be scrolled via articulated hand input.

How to use a slate control

A slate control is composed of the following elements:

• TitleBar: The entire title bar on top of the slate.
• Title: The title area on the left side of the title bar.
• Buttons: The button area on the right side of the title bar.
• BackPlate: The back side of the slate.
• ContentQuad: Content is assigned as material. The example uses a sample material 'PanContent'.

Bounding box

A slate control contains a bounding box script for scaling and rotating. For more information on bounding box, please see the Bounding box page.

Buttons

A standard slate offers two buttons as default on the top right of the title bar:

• Follow Me: Toggles an orbital solver components to make the slate object follow the user.
• Close: Disables the slate object.

Scripts

In general, the NearInteractionTouchable.cs script must be attached to any object that is intended to receive touch events from the IMixedRealityTouchHandler.

• HandInteractionPan.cs This script handles articulated hand input for touching and moving the content on the slate's ContentQuad.

• HandInteractionPanZoom.cs: In addition to the panning interaction, this script supports two-handed zooming.