Why does the forum not always fit on my screen?

[Clipper]

Most of the time I can read the entire post on the screen without scrolling right and left, but occasionally the image comes up wider than my screen and I have to scroll to the right to see the right hand side of the printed matter.

It is rather maddening at times, and yet most of the time, as is true right now, the forum is perfectly aligned and fits completely within the margins of my normal screen.

Is it something that I am doing, something firefox is doing, or something Proboards is doing?

[clarencebunsen]

Yes or perhaps no.

[Clipper]

LOL. That's what I am afraid of. Oh well. Computers are the devil's work I tell ya! They have been invented to make average people insane and technical geniuses wealthy.

[Deleted]

That happens to me also, Clipper. Usually the screen will start to jerk and then get normal again. I think it might have something to do with large photo's that are posted which undergo a reduction in image size. Wow , listen to me get technical. I almost scared myself by golly

[clarencebunsen]

Sorry, Clipper. I couldn't resist being a wise guy.

I have see the condition Alan described, a post with an image which at first exceeds the screen size & then re-sizes. I've never worried about it too much since it self corrects quickly.

I have also seen the condition you describe, a post which exceeds the screen width but stays that way requiring scrolling left & right to read the whole text. I know of one possible fix. Firefox has a zoom function. Hold down the control key and scroll up or down (using the mouse wheel or the scroll bar at the side of most touchpads). This will zoom what's on the screen in or out. There are always other ways of doing that but that shortcut is quick & dirty & I can usually remember it. I haven't tried it on IE or Chrome.

I have run into a Proboards problem also recently. If I want to return to a thread in which I have already read the most recent post, it seems blocked. Clicking on the thread takes me back to the home screen. If it is a multipage thread, clicking on the last page number will take me to the top of that page. This occurs in Firefox or Chrome but not in IE so I can always work around it. It happens on two computers, one running XP, one Win 7.

[dave]

Most of the time it is oversized graphics that cause Alan's problem and most of the time they occur in my posts here on the forum. In order to post a graphic on Proboards, it has to first reside somewhere on the Internet. To post the graphic, we enter a code around its url and put that in the post. If the graphic happens to be oversize, it will push the margins out on SOME PCs (meaning PC's with certain kinds of software) and the result is what Alan is experiencing.

CB's problem is with a function known as "Jump To Recent Post." It's a popular function added to any individual forum and allows the forum to remember where the member was and jump him or her ahead to that place when he comes back. Without it, you'd have to advance through the pages and scroll down to the bottom every time you accessed a thread. Tedious.

We've discussed Jump To Recent a number of times here, and people have varying results with it. For myself, using XP sp 3, it gives me the "undefined" problem and I can't get into the thread when I use Chrome and Safari for Windows. Only Firefox seems to have no problem with the function.

Jon Hynes used to get pissed off at me on the More Stories Forum when I often posted such large graphics because his setup experienced that problem all the time. But my only solution would have been to download a graphic I was "borrowing," reduce its size and place the newly sized graphic in my own webspace. Sometimes I did that, but it eats up your server space.

I'll wait for Ralph to chime in later and do the heavy duty explanations, but while you're waiting for him, if you're having the problems while using Firefox, the first thing I would do is turn off all your Firefox add ons and extensions temporarily and see if that helps. If it does, then turn them back on one at a time until you find the culprit. I don't know if that would solve anything, but it's worth a try, especially if things were running well and all of a sudden the problem popped up.

[Clipper]

I have also noted that problem lately Clarence. I find that in order to get to the place where I can reply or post, I have to click on the post name under the screen name of the last person that posted to it, at the right under "last post" and then when the thread opens I am able to scroll to the last comment and click on the reply in order to open the "post message" block.

[Ralph]

The resizing of graphics, at least here on our forum, is due to a limit code I inserted when I started tweaking the board after we first got running.
No matter where you post your image from it will automatically re-size to the limits I imposed on it here, which keeps the entire post on the screen.......eventually.

The return to last thread/post has more to do with how your PC's operating system and browser settings handle your history and internet cache than it does the forum.

I always go back to where I was before until I run CCleaner and dump all my browser caches. After that I just float around!
If you try to view the forum without being logged in it will also return you to the home page from time to time. I think that is due to a Proboards setting.

[dave]

Jan 19, 2013 3:42:28 GMT -5 Ralph said:

The resizing of graphics, at least here on our forum, is due to a limit code I inserted when I started tweaking the board after we first got running.
No matter where you post your image from it will automatically re-size to the limits I imposed on it here, which keeps the entire post on the screen.......eventually.
The return to last thread/post has more to do with how your PC's operating system and browser settings handle your history and internet cache than it does the forum.

I always go back to where I was before until I run CCleaner and dump all my browser caches. After that I just float around!
If you try to view the forum without being logged in it will also return you to the home page from time to time. I think that is due to a Proboards setting.

You're more expert on this stuff than I, Ralph, but on the More Stories Forum I was able to turn that function on and off (when Jon was complaining) by going to the global footer and removing or inserting the code you gave me with the header "Jumps to most recent post in thread By Todge."

I was always surprised it wasn't standard Proboards function, because navigating a forum without it is quite tedious.

[Ralph]

It may become part of the new Proboards builds as they are making a test of a beta version at present.

I believe the code relies upon the cookies left behind in the browser to point it in the right direction, hence that it depends on how those cookies are kept.
Glad I'm not "Todge"!!! I hate working with HTML code, drives me batty as there are so many.