Thank you for the explanation, now I understand the difficulty. The single box is pretty good. IMO the "fixed size" option can be enhanced by allowing the user to drag to resize the boxes' proportion to whatever suits them (saved either for the current application run only or in the config file across application runs) .
On Tuesday, 13 June 2023 at 05:39:45 UTC+1 Peter Bienstman wrote: > The problem is that after some library changes, it's no longer easy to > figure out how many lines a card is. Note that this depends on font size, > width of your window,... > > Bit I guess I make the single box the default in the future. > > Peter > > On Mon, 12 Jun 2023, 22:24 Neil F, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Or the "Fixed size" option where you can drag the slider to choose the >> respective fixed size of the Q and A boxes. >> >> On Monday, 12 June 2023 at 21:16:25 UTC+1 Neil F wrote: >> >>> I see, thanks for the explanation. >>> The adaptive mode can work very simply: just restrict the box size to >>> the text. So if there are only 3 lines of text, there is really no need to >>> show 5 blank lines above and below, so that the answer box is crammed. >>> Seems like an obvious UX to me, not sure why it's not the default. >>> >>> On Sunday, 11 June 2023 at 21:11:32 UTC+1 Peter Bienstman wrote: >>> >>>> The adaptive option is based on a heuristic which an upgrade to the >>>> library broke. >>>> >>>> I'd suggest you use the single box option. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> >>>> Peter >>>> >>>> On Sun, 11 Jun 2023, 17:01 Neil F, <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi all, >>>>> >>>>> Is there any way to resize the Question and Answer boxes? I keep >>>>> questions rather terse, whereas the Answer contains a block of >>>>> programming >>>>> code that's long. >>>>> >>>>> I noticed there's an option under the "General" tab called "Show >>>>> question and answer in two boxes with adaptive size" but that makes no >>>>> difference at all to the "in two boxes with fixed size" default option. >>>>> >>>>> Here is a screenshot of it having no effect on a short question and >>>>> long answer: >>>>> >>>>> https://i.imgur.com/FZeK8L5.png >>>>> >>>>> A simple drag slider would be so handy! >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>> Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mnemosyne-proj-users/f63c202e-590f-4a60-a0e5-3f7d5a73f291n%40googlegroups.com >>>>> >>>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mnemosyne-proj-users/f63c202e-590f-4a60-a0e5-3f7d5a73f291n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>>> . >>>>> >>>> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mnemosyne-proj-users/14b3835d-b7a8-4caa-90ae-d9ad6b7b5c1dn%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mnemosyne-proj-users/14b3835d-b7a8-4caa-90ae-d9ad6b7b5c1dn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/mnemosyne-proj-users/2c65b81b-5fb9-4ff7-96e3-a3d227c0a76cn%40googlegroups.com.
