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 Posted: Wednesday August 25th, 2004 11:05

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Greetings Techies:),

Sometimes, when I am in the main Black Forum menu I can see the whole screen, then go into a forum and the screen is so wide that I have to scroll left and right as well as up and down.

How come?

Is there something I need to or could change at my end or is a techie thingconfused3



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 Posted: Wednesday August 25th, 2004 11:08

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Also, where did the tell a friend thingie go? Weren't enough people using it?



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 Posted: Wednesday August 25th, 2004 17:26

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Question....What resoultion are you running at? (Right click desktop-> properties->settings)

I had to drop down to 640x480 to get horizontal scroll bars.



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 Posted: Thursday August 26th, 2004 14:30

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Hey Nick,

So you had the same problem? I have 1024 by 768 at the moment. It seems to be fine now, but I will try and do what you did then test and see if that sorts it out.

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 Posted: Thursday August 26th, 2004 17:52

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No sorry, I run at 1280x960, but to get scroll bars to appear, I had to lower it down to 640x480.

But if you say its working fine now, it might have just been a minor bug that has gone now. In which case utilize the old proverb. If its not broken, don't fix it.



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 Posted: Thursday January 19th, 2006 20:18

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Family I've gotta bump this one. I'm still having probs seeing the whole width of screen at onceblkhelp:(



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 Posted: Thursday January 19th, 2006 20:24

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1. Open up the forum to a page where you are having this problem

2. Press "Print Screen" button.

3. Open up paint and paste the image and save as a JPG

4. Attach the picture in the post

I can then have a look at what might be causing the problem



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 Posted: Thursday January 19th, 2006 20:27

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The widening sometimes occurs when people post images that are very large or hyperlinks that are very long.  Notify one of the mods when you notice this and they can fix it for you.



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 Posted: Thursday January 19th, 2006 20:30

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Oh right....yeah. Sorry is this just happening on a few posts?

I thought it was happenening most of the time.



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 Posted: Thursday January 19th, 2006 20:36

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@Nick/All: OK reading back what I said it's not clear. It's not horizontal bars I want it's horizontal bars I want to get rid of.

E.g. viewing the screen I have now, I can see all that's been said from avatar to the mailing list boxes. When I go into other threads I am having to scroll left and right to see the whole message. So I'm scrolling back and forth rather than up and down as is standard:?.I don't just get it here either. On other web pages the same happens .

 



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 Posted: Thursday January 19th, 2006 20:40

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Ok do as I said a couple of posts back and post a screenshot so I can get a better idea of what is going on.



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 Posted: Thursday January 19th, 2006 21:55

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Ok

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 Posted: Thursday January 19th, 2006 21:56

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...then....

Attachment: Screen nah work!.JPG (Downloaded 89 times)



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 Posted: Thursday January 19th, 2006 22:13

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At a first glance I would suspect this is something to do with the AOL browser, if you open up the forum's with Internet Explorer do you get the same problem?

Some posts are slightly wider than others due to some people's avartars, but that shouldn't matter too much unless the AOL browser is causing problems. Or if you have set the browser font size to high. Try setting it slightly lower, it should be found in one of the view menu's.



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 Posted: Thursday January 19th, 2006 23:38

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Nick wrote: At a first glance I would suspect this is something to do with the AOL browser, if you open up the forum's with Internet Explorer do you get the same problem?

Some posts are slightly wider than others due to some people's avartars, but that shouldn't matter too much unless the AOL browser is causing problems. Or if you have set the browser font size to high. Try setting it slightly lower, it should be found in one of the view menu's.


It may be the browser but I'm blksnore so will tackle it tomorrow.

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 Posted: Friday January 20th, 2006 01:49

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The width of the text area can change because a poster inserts a LOOOONNNNGGGG URL for people to link to.  It may have nothing to do with your machine.  I have been combatting this on my posts by making the long URLs {size=1} though that has to be square brackets instead of curly brackets.

A more sophisticated method is a site called tinyurl.com which will give you a short URL for a big one.

You could also code a label for the URL but the syntax for that varies with different sites.  There should be an explanation for how to do that in help but I haven't checked.  I'm a lazy bum and don't want to remember how to do it on each site I go to.

The next time you have to scroll left and right look up and down the thread for someone having posted a LOOONNNGGGG URL.

I have been to sites where the system automatically only shows a portion of the URL.  Maybe they could do that here.  HINT!  HINT!

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 Posted: Saturday January 21st, 2006 23:01

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Nick wrote: At a first glance I would suspect this is something to do with the AOL browser, if you open up the forum's with Internet Explorer do you get the same problem?

Some posts are slightly wider than others due to some people's avartars, but that shouldn't matter too much unless the AOL browser is causing problems. Or if you have set the browser font size to high. Try setting it slightly lower, it should be found in one of the view menu's.


Actually I don't have Explorer but at work I did and that's where I noticed the problems. I don't see any view menu's either. Does that mean though that I'll need to change  the view for every page it  happens on? That's long!

@Drunk & umbarchist: Thanks for that. For a minute you had me baffled but  it makes sense.I have been combatting this on my posts by making the long URLs {size=1} though that has to be square brackets instead of curly brackets.
How? I may have to do that with the other sites.
A more sophisticated method is a site called tinyurl.com which will give you a short URL for a big one. So will it automatically fix the pages as the long URL's are on it?

You could also code a label for the URL but the syntax for that varies with different sites.  There should be an explanation for how to do that in help but I haven't checked.  I'm a lazy bum and don't want to remember how to do it on each site I go to.

The next time you have to scroll left and right look up and down the thread for someone having posted a LOOONNNGGGG URL.

I have been to sites where the system automatically only shows a portion of the URL.  Maybe they could do that here.  HINT!  HINT!
clp)Mods can we hook this up please:)
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I'm at the tinyurl site but don't have a links toolbar to drag the link to.... cha me head a hut meblktrainers



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I'm at the tinyurl site but don't have a links toolbar to drag the link to.... cha me head a hut meblktrainers


I don't know what you mean by this.

tinyurl will only prevent your posts from causing the wide screen problem.  It won't fix someone elses.

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[url=javascript:void(location.href='http://tinyurl.com/create.php?url='+location.href)]TinyURL![/url]Once this is on your toolbar, you'll be able to make a TinyURL at the click of a button. By clicking on the toolbar button, a TinyURL will be created for the page you are currently at.


This is compatible with most web browsers and platforms as long as your bookmarks or favorites allow javascript. The links toolbar may not be visible in all setups and in most browsers, you can enable it in the View->Toolbars menu of your web browser. You can also put it in your bookmarks instead of the links toolbar.

tinyurl will only prevent your posts from causing the wide screen problem.  It won't fix someone elses. Could I have read the second highlighted part wrong then? It sounds like I should be able to change the whole page I'm at.

 



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 Posted: Monday January 23rd, 2006 11:06

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Click on start buuton on thr bottom left hand side...

Then its...Control Panel..then Display...then the settings tab..then adjust your screen resoultion to whatever you like.:)



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jibstar wrote: Click on start buuton on thr bottom left hand side...

Then its...Control Panel..then Display...then the settings tab..then adjust your screen resoultion to whatever you like.:)


I was just about to tell you that this wasn't the problem...then I tried again....and it worked banana.gifI've got the full screen at 1024 x 768. After all that*shakes head in bisbelief*.

Anyway, thanks so much all. I'm sincerely gratefulblkbowdown.gif" ALT="blkbowdown">



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