hausdok Posted October 11, 2009 Report Share Posted October 11, 2009 Hey All, TIJ no long fills up my monitor screen and I don't remember doing anything to change it. Is it just me, or have the programming gnomes up in B.C. been doing something with the site settings since I was last in here about 11:00 am? ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Katen Posted October 11, 2009 Report Share Posted October 11, 2009 Hey All, TIJ no long fills up my monitor screen and I don't remember doing anything to change it. Is it just me, or have the programming gnomes up in B.C. been doing something with the site settings since I was last in here about 11:00 am? ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike Something has changed. The pages render smaller from side to side. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nolan Kienitz Posted October 11, 2009 Report Share Posted October 11, 2009 Mike, See what happens when you blink !!! Yes ... it does provide more white space now on the sides. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inspector57 Posted October 11, 2009 Report Share Posted October 11, 2009 Its just old age creeping up on you Nolan. [] Seriously, I see the same thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hausdok Posted October 11, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2009 Hi, Yep, gnomes. I talked to Mike; apparently, some of the stuff he wants to do to improve the site won't work if he keeps it configured to completely fill the screen. OT - OF!!! M. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inspector57 Posted October 11, 2009 Report Share Posted October 11, 2009 FWIW, I liked the look. I don't have to scroll side to side. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Brown Posted October 11, 2009 Report Share Posted October 11, 2009 FWIW, I liked the look. I don't have to scroll side to side. The resizing was mainly for users with smaller than 1024 monitors and I'm thinking those days are pretty much in the past? I'm assuming everyone has at least a 1024 resolution monitor now... Jim I wasn't sure if you liked it better before or not? Give me some feedback on this guys. BTW: The white space won't be white anymore. Michael Brown DevWave Software Inc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurt Posted October 11, 2009 Report Share Posted October 11, 2009 I noticed the difference, but it doesn't effect anything I care about. I still like it better than most bb software out there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Katen Posted October 11, 2009 Report Share Posted October 11, 2009 FWIW, I liked the look. I don't have to scroll side to side. The resizing was mainly for users with smaller than 1024 monitors and I'm thinking those days are pretty much in the past? I'm assuming everyone has at least a 1024 resolution monitor now... Jim I wasn't sure if you liked it better before or not? Give me some feedback on this guys. BTW: The white space won't be white anymore. Michael Brown DevWave Software Inc. The previous arrangement looked like it was custom fit to my monitor, while this one looks like it's been squished. I can, of course, resize it, but after one or two jumps in size, the graphics start to look pixelated. I don't really have a preference. What are you planning to do with the white bars? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terence McCann Posted October 11, 2009 Report Share Posted October 11, 2009 I liked the old way better. Looks like a lot of wasted real estate on my screen. Is this for viewing on a BlackBerry? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nolan Kienitz Posted October 11, 2009 Report Share Posted October 11, 2009 Here he is ... in his programming glory up in BC. Click to Enlarge 10.37 KB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Lamb Posted October 11, 2009 Report Share Posted October 11, 2009 Absolutely no problems here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erby Posted October 12, 2009 Report Share Posted October 12, 2009 Six of one or half dozen of the other, don't make much difference. I prefer the 100% to fixed width but I guess it depends on what you're going to do with the white space. If you fill it up with something pretty neat, like my blog does, then it's still wasted space. B4U Close Blog If you do something useful with it, then it'd be neat. Whatever, it's YOUR BB. We are just guests that like to visit. Do with it what you will and the rest of us will adapt after a bit of whining. - Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randynavarro Posted October 12, 2009 Report Share Posted October 12, 2009 I like it. Narrower doesn't bug me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inspectorjoe Posted October 12, 2009 Report Share Posted October 12, 2009 I have a 1024 monitor and now I have to scroll. I don't recall having to do that before the change. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Brown Posted October 12, 2009 Report Share Posted October 12, 2009 The previous arrangement looked like it was custom fit to my monitor, while this one looks like it's been squished. I can, of course, resize it, but after one or two jumps in size, the graphics start to look pixelated. I don't really have a preference. What are you planning to do with the white bars? I just want to update the look and layout a bit using some png's instead of the gif's. The side bars or white space will be filled in a bit. Just a change for now... Michael Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Brown Posted October 12, 2009 Report Share Posted October 12, 2009 Here he is ... in his programming glory up in BC. Click to Enlarge 10.37 KB Not sure where you found that wimpy gnome... we have Texas size Gnomes up here. This pic is from a few miles up the road: Click to Enlarge 41.31 KB Joe the table is set to 990 pixels so that should leave 17 pixels on each side? Not sure why you would still have to scroll? No for the BlackBerry although I have thought about a version... this isn't going to be it. Michael Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inspectorjoe Posted October 13, 2009 Report Share Posted October 13, 2009 Joe the table is set to 990 pixels so that should leave 17 pixels on each side? Not sure why you would still have to scroll? Michael The main page of the message board (with the lists of various threads) fits perfectly. Click to Enlarge 66.14 KB If I open a thread, about 15% of it doesn't fit. That happens with pretty much all of the other pages on TIJ. Click to Enlarge 64.33 KB Most other message boards fit perfectly. I know of one where I have to scroll like here. It's not a problem for me. I only mentioned it because you asked for feedback. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Brown Posted October 13, 2009 Report Share Posted October 13, 2009 Joe can you try View... Zoom... Reset and let me know if that fixed it? I tried it in FireFox and didn't see a problem... and with the large amount it is over on your screen that is the only thing I can think of? Thank you for your feedback! It is very much appreciated! Michael Brown DevWave Software Inc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inspectorjoe Posted October 13, 2009 Report Share Posted October 13, 2009 In Firefox, when I click reset, the unseen area of an individual thread page shrinks from about 15%, to maybe 5%. On the main message board page, where before, it fit perfectly, it now has that same approximately 5% that's unseen. If I zoom out one level, there's a little white space on either side, which is what I'm guessing everyone else sees. Using Opera, when it's set a at 100%, about 15% is unseen. It fits perfectly when it's set at 90%. Internet Explorer behaves identically. Maybe I should just get myself a new monitor, since they seem to be practically giving them away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hausdok Posted October 13, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 13, 2009 Hi Joe, Have you tried adjusting your monitor settings - height, width, centering top-too-bottom and side-to-side - using the buttons on the monitor versus the screen settings in your program? When I last replaced my monitor, it was a week before I figured out that I had to physically adjust those settings in order to get stuff to display correctly. OT - OF!!! M. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inspectorjoe Posted October 13, 2009 Report Share Posted October 13, 2009 That thought popped into my head yesterday, Mike. I discovered that for some reason, the image size had shrunk and I hadn't noticed. I stretched it out to fill the monitor, but that just expanded the display as a whole, without changing the amount that's not viewable. I forgot to do it last night, but I was going to see how TIJ displays on my laptop and my wife's laptop. If I manage to catch her in a half-decent mood, I might even ask my stepdaughter to bring it up on hers also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobC Posted October 13, 2009 Report Share Posted October 13, 2009 Dear Gnome, On Firefox 3.5.3 Just to let you know, the second tool bar is dark and barely visible. And On the posting form window, the bar is missing its maroon color with the exception of maybe 3/4" or so at the beginning to middle of the B in :Book Store. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Raymond Posted October 14, 2009 Report Share Posted October 14, 2009 The gnomes are at it again. The "active topic" counter is off. It read "5" earlier today while displaying 3 threads, and again just now it displays "1" and there are none. Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hausdok Posted October 14, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 14, 2009 Picky, picky, picky!!! [:-bonc01] Bear with them, Guys; it's difficult to work fast when you're only about 6 inches tall and it takes a bunch of walking and jumping back and forth to hit the keys. They'll get there eventually. ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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