Hello,
I have noticed that when I scale my Mozilla Firefox Browser v30 below 100% (which I know some users do) it cuts off part of the calculator's frame. I have tried adding width % in the frame in which the calculator appears, but it makes no difference. If browser scale percentage is below 100%, the calculator is chopped off on the right and bottom. Any fixes you can think of? I'm posting a sample with browser at 90%. I am using Moodle 2.6.4 the theme is essential 2.7.1.
Regards
Rod
Actually that is true of all the PoodLL flash widgets, they don't scale when the browser zooms in or out.
In this case though, you can just the JS version of the calculator, and that works better.
Try this
{POODLL:type=calculator,runtime=js}
You can also add width and height and size params if you wish. Something like this:
{POODLL:type=calculator,size=tiny,width=400,height=800,runtime=js}
Thank you very much!
This works much better, though I still have some of the calculator's right and bottom sides missing as the attached image shows. I have also experimented with using percentages for width, but that has no effect.
Overall, this calculator works very, very well. Users like its appearance.
Regards,
Rod
Just another add on to the above post. In exploring this in firebug inspector I have found that the iframe poodll sets up for the calculator is always smaller than the calculator size. Thus, it is cropped even in the js version. Any thoughts?
Rod
Aha, that could be it. I knew about the truncating but never got the bottom of it.
I will look at that when I can, but it might be a while. Unless it is critical ...
Hello Justin,
My post on this issue was now about 2 weeks ago. I see a lot of traffic that has passed beneath your pen since then. Makes me feel this issue is being left in the dust. I'm willing to do some of the work, but without a place to start, it's just not possible. The calculator cut off is even worse in IE.
Regards,
Rod
Justin
Rodney
I spent a little time on it yesterday. It is a little more complex than just the iframe sizes etc. The JS code for the calculator is exported from the same source that creates the flash version. It uses a framework called OpenLaszlo. In the exported code we seem to be getting the sizing issue. I did not write the original calculator, but I did have to get deep into it when creating the three sizes (normal, small and tiny).
To be honest it would require getting into the code and recompiling it. Knowing OpenLaszlo, I think that could be a bit of a time sink, and I certainly wouldn't recommend you going that route.
A better investment of time would be to get an all JS calculator and replace the original PoodLL calculator with that.
A quick google, came up with this:
http://thecodeplayer.com/walkthrough/javascript-css3-calculator
If that works for you, or you find something you like better, let me know and I will try and put it in.
