No way to resize Q & A Boxes

[Neil F]

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!

[Peter Bienstman]

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 

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[Neil F]

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.

[Neil F]

Or the "Fixed size" option where you can drag the slider to choose the respective fixed size of the Q and A boxes.

[Peter Bienstman]

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 

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[Neil F]

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) .

[Peter Bienstman]

Thanks! I don't think dragging to change the size is always a good idea, since different cards could have very different sizes.

Cheres,

Peter

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[Neil F]

It's true, but it's user-controlled so it's optional. It will cater to both groups:

1. The group of users who have short questions and long answers--or for whatever reason wants to see more of the answer box than the question box or vice versa--can resize the boxes to suit their preference.

2. The group of users who have wildly varying question and answer sizes and for whom this feature is not useful won't resize.

The resize widget is very muted, so most users won't even notice it until they look for it.

That said, the "Single Box" option is very good, it's just that it doesn't show the separation between question and answer, which looks a bit confusing: https://i.imgur.com/z7k8kQh.png

[Peter Bienstman]

The reason it doesn't show up very well is because you have a black background. I'll add your suggestions to my todo list, but I'm afraid they're not very high on the list...

Cheers,

Peter

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[Neil F]

That's OK, thanks for the honesty and thanks for developing this great application :) It was the main tool I used to get my dream job so I'm very grateful!