Tweaks to the New Forum

[Roger Pennington]

Nath's gearchange pics actually come out much bigger in my RSS feed (presumably their original size?). If that is their original size, then (based on Ian's note) I'm surprised it doesn't give any option to see them bigger when reading the actual post in the forum. Having said that, when I tried it on the brooklands thread, the pop-up picture only seemed to be the same size as the small size.

Having just re-read that, I'm not sure if it'll make sense to anyone else, if not I'll try and explain it again tomorrow........

cheers,

....Roger

[erikscimitardemon]

Regarding the Overseas Owners section: Would it be worth considering merging all the forums to one? There are 5 new message threads in the last year combined, which isn't much even for one forum. This would simpify the front page appearance nicely. Just a thought

After some group thinking, the Overseas OWners section was moved to the Scimitarweb Discussion section. Now it is a subforum of the Sc.Di. section, with all subfora kept as is.
But it does clean up the main page.
A good idea, Hezekiel

[Burtle]

Nath's gearchange pics actually come out much bigger in my RSS feed (presumably their original size?). If that is their original size, then (based on Ian's note) I'm surprised it doesn't give any option to see them bigger when reading the actual post in the forum. Having said that, when I tried it on the brooklands thread, the pop-up picture only seemed to be the same size as the small size.

Having just re-read that, I'm not sure if it'll make sense to anyone else, if not I'll try and explain it again tomorrow........

cheers,

....Roger

Yep having read the first bit I was expecting to see a resize option too. The all pics I up load are all 800x600 to give plenty of detail, there a bit hard to see when shrunk the way they are.

It's all definately getting there though.

Cheers
Nath

[Ian]

I'll revisit the picture mod and see if it is doing what it is supposed to do. This mod was done as a response to those who complained that the large pictures they posted were getting truncated on the right hand side. Anything bigger than 640x480 should now be shown full size by clicking on it. Anything smaller should be shown in its original size without an option to enlarge it.

[Ian]

OK, first findings.

If you mean Nath's sequential gearchange CAD drawings they are actually all 400 pixels wide by varying heights and all show at their actual size on my screen. They do not have a zoom option because they are smaller than 640x480.

The Brooklands photos are mainly 650x488 just a little bit bigger than 640x480 and so the zoom to fullsize doesn't APPEAR to change very much. You can see a greater enlargement effect on the picture of David Bailey (sorry, Poole) and his tripod.

Can you point me in the direction of a thread with large posted pictures?

[Roger Pennington]

Hi Ian, Thanks for looking into this. It's very odd, based on what I remember of them, the Brooklands photos that Dave and Matt posted (not mine) were bigger (I would guess at least 800x600) and badly truncated. Rather than refer you to other threads and have you chasing all over the place, here's a test. This image is 800x500 so it'll be interesting to see what happens to it:



cheers,

....Roger

[Roger Pennington]

Ah Ha! Well that worked perfectly fine in the preview pane, and I thought it was going to prove me wrong, which would be embarrasing (!) but in fact, in the actual act of posting it it seems to have been resized, and now when you hover the mouse over it it says it is only 650 wide - strange.

However, I've now noticed that in posting this reply, when I look in the lower pane which shows the note I'm replying to, it does show it correctly as 800x500, and clicking resizes it correctly

cheers,

....Roger

[Roger Pennington]

And, just to add, it comes out in the correct 800x500 in RSS as well!

cheers,

...Roger

[Burtle]

OK, first findings.

If you mean Nath's sequential gearchange CAD drawings they are actually all 400 pixels wide by varying heights and all show at their actual size on my screen. They do not have a zoom option because they are smaller than 640x480.

Strange, they are all 800x600 ish, if in doubt try this to see the linked original.

http://www.merlinscc.co.uk/Images/Scimitar/sequential-01(Medium).jpg

and here's the forum link of the same thing:



which now updates when clicked, but still isn't the same size as the original, I wonder whats up there? It is also showing larger in this post than in the general post?

Cheers

[Ian]

WEIRD

Roger's white SS1 shows as posted at size 650x406 not 800x600 and Nath's drawing at 650x499 rather than 800xsomething.

This may take some investigation; deerstalker on, pipe in mouth and magnifying glass in hand

[Ian]

I think I've found the problem. The external links mod has conflicted with the image resizing mod. It was not apparent in testing as I had no idea of the true size of the images. I'm going to apply a fix in the next few minutes, before 14:00. We'll see what happens then.

[Roger Pennington]

Ian, well done! I think that's cracked it! It certainly works fine with my pic, with Nath's pic it's actually a two-stage process to fully enlarge it, but I suspect that's because it's quite high as well as wide, and I'm viewing on a widesceen monitor with less vertical height (i.e. when expanded to full size I get a vertical scrollbar on the picture window itself).

So the deerstalker can probably go back in the cupboard!

thanks,

....Roger

[Burtle]

Nice one Sherlock, all is working perfectly now.

We need an smilies icon with a pipe and dearstalker now.

[Ian]

The latest tweak developed in response to feedback has been applied:

The "Recent Topics" block now shows the latest poster and time rather than the original poster.

[Roger Pennington]

Excellent, works well thanks,

cheers,

....Roger