Full Screen (F11) navigation buttons not working, also broken links possibly due to aspect ratio.

[SteveT]

Just noticed, that the all the menu and navigation buttons are not functioning at max Full Screen view in exlporer mode.  I'm not sure if this has happened since the introduction of the new zoom panorama the other day. It's not working in Chrome or IE  or FF the Keyboard arrow keys still function to forward and reverse. To regain function F11 needs to be pressed again.

Also I know that links to photos have been reported broken in explorer, but some of it seems to be due to the photos aspect ratio 16:9 photos are not displaying whereas 4:3 are OK. This will also be one of the reasons for causing a large dip in viewing stats also reported, and that I've seen lately.

Stephen 

 

[Tomas K☼h☼ut]

Hi Steve, I have also same experinece with full screen behaviour of exporers toolbar.

Going to report it as a bug.

[SteveT]

Cheers Tomas, 

It's when the screen as at absolute max, ie not showing the Panoramio Logo and only a single menu bar that this problem occurs.

Stephen

[Tomas K☼h☼ut]

I know.

[SteveT]

Does anyone know if there has been any progress on this issue?

Stephen

[QuentinUK]

Which browser are you using?

In Safari the menu bar disappears in full screen mode, after about 2 seconds. 

[SteveT]

Hi Quentin

Chrome, Internet Explorer and Firefox all have this anomaly. In that if you press F11, then go to full screen, the remaining single line pop-up navigation bar controls that you should still be able to use, don't work.

Stephen 

[Tomas K☼h☼ut]

On Thursday, December 13, 2012 10:16:23 AM UTC+1, SteveT wrote:

.... the remaining single line pop-up navigation bar controls that you should still be able to use, don't work.

E.g., you cannot leave full screen mode via (visible) toolbar by mouse. You have to remember keyboard  shortcut.

Not a big deal in Chrome - in full screen mode there is additional popup with clickable message "Leave full screen mode" and it does work. Moreover, there is a keyboard shortcut for toolbar command Leave full screen mode - Esc.

But problem is in IE...

If you enter full screen mode via toolbar command (not by browser command F11), toolbar turns into "autohide" mode, and buttons on the toolbar work only till first "hide" of toolbar. After that, toolbar re-appears, but from the point of mouse input is transparent (no clicks are counted, double clicks are handled like double clicks in photo area, e.g. zoom). There is no other way how to leave full screen mode than browser "back" command, which takes you back to the point where you have started photo explorer mode.

[SteveT]

The point I'm trying to make is because the autohide tool-bar is there with controls and appears it should work, is that it doesn't. So either it should work or should'nt be there in the first place. If the screen purely was designed to go to only full screen and using ESC to exit that would be OK but the controls are there and they don't work and as far as I can remember have never worked. 

Cheers

Stephen 

[df3vi]

For me, the bug behaves different, tested on Firefox and chrome: The menu bar is functioning also in full screen - until you pause a full screen slide show to zoom into a photo. Then the menu buttons stop working as soon as the little zoom icon on the left appears. You have to use ESC or BACK key in the browser to get out of this.

[Tomas K☼h☼ut]

Update:

Team have accepted this report as bug and discover the source of problem. Let's hope for the fix.

[SteveT]

Thanks for the update Tomas, sometimes here, things do take a long time to be resolved. Let's hope now they have accepted there is a problem that they now can sort it.

Stephen

[SteveT]

Update on this problem:

I'm not sure if this is due to a nearly  full fix but I can now use the navigation buttons in full screen explore mode. BUT, this is only possible if I use one of the forward or reverse arrows first this seems to trigger the operation of all functions. You used to only be able to use the escape key. 

It is possible nothing has actually changed here, but the point being, if work has been done to fix the toolbar operation in full screen, there is only now small problem of getting this long standing problem fully fixed without first having to use the forward reverse keys.

Cheers

Stephen

[Adam Lasnik]

Steve, thanks for letting us know.  Will dig into this.

[SteveT]

Much appreciated Adam.

Thanks,

Stephen

[SteveT]

Adam,

I think there has been some improvement with this and it's nearly fixed. If I press F11 then the full screen toolbar works as it should. However if I use the goto fullscreen Icon on the toolbar on the nearly fullscreen then the fullscreen toolbar does not work.

Hope this is some help.

Stephen

On Thursday, July 25, 2013 12:15:45 AM UTC+1, Adam Lasnik wrote:

[df3vi]

One thing that is still not fixed: When you click "change", then almost non of all the links work. No other groups, no other tags, just the bottom line with "popular, recent..." does it.

[SteveT]

If you use the direction arrows once on the keyboard all the functions on the tool-bar magically start working properly. Also if you get to full screen via the F11 all functions now work without a problem. It's only when you expand to full screen via the 'X' button that there is this problem and only pressing 'ESC' or F11 gets you out. Hopefully the team are still having a look at this as surely it can't be a major problem now to fix it.

Cheers

Stephen  

[SteveT]

Df3vi On further investigation as well re the "change" button when it works and the option to view "Popular" "Recent" and "All" all give the same result always just the most popular.

[Tomas K☼h☼ut]

Well... I think nothing has changed since the first report of this bug.

Steve, source of the confusion is... there are two "modes" of full screen:

a) Browser forced (user pressed F11) full screen - browser hides system toolbar, caption, status bar, but the display of the content (so called "client area") is unchanged, only re-rendered to utilize enlarged display area. Client are is not aware of browser being run in full screen mode. This mode works fine.

b) Client forced full screen (full screen icon on Panoramio photo explorer navigation toolbar) - client changes its operation mode (hides amost empty toolbar with logo and users avatar and settings button, puts photo explorer navigation toolbar into autohide mode) + forces browser to full screen mode - same action as described in a).

In this mode, although photo explorer navigation toolbar is visible, it is not clickable. Looks like transparent from the point of mouse input. Click within photo explorer navigation toolbar are translated as clicks on photo itself (e.g. double click enlarges photos). For me, intermezzo with alternate keybord input (keys left/right) does not help to revive toolbar (however keyboard controled navigation works fine).

There are more bugs in photo explorer - summary:

a)  photo explorer does not work at all in client forced full screen mode

b) "Change" option for navigation in explorer does not work - can bu used only to jump to popular photos set

c) switching to / out of full screen mode sometimes does not repaint properly client area at proper place/ resolution (photo is shifted, cropped, does not utilize whole screen) - this is a bit random, sometimes it works fine. No matter which "full screen mode" you use - both have glitches.

d) Zoom navigation window shall disappear out of view (fade) if there is no mouse activity... often it "flickers" instead of that

e) Photo explorer navigation toolbar shall autohide in client forced full screen mode - but it does not. I think it has worked some time ago, but now this navigation toolbar is pinned to photo and sometimes obscures part of the view (see c)

f)Not sure if photo title has to have "autohide" feature too...

I am talking about Chrome. Beahviour in other browsers may differ.

[SteveT]

Thank you Tomas, you are describing in detail what is happening. For me though the problem is possibly overly simple. I can get things to work if I use the direction keys in full screen via 'X' Key mode once (Chrome/IE/Firefox). The autohide toolbar then works fully. If I use the F11 key to get to there  the autohide toolbar and all function work straight off.

The solution also for me would seem a piece of cake, but as I'm not a programmer this may not be the case. If the subroutine call for the toolbar to appear via F11 was duplicated identically to the 'X' key, for me that would be a fix. This is possible a vastly over simplification this long term problem but it would be nice if this problem was at last nailed. 

There was also the problem of Change on the toolbar selecting the "change" button when it works and the option to view "Popular" "Recent" and "All" all give the same result always just the most popular which again should not beyond the reach of an easy fix.

Cheers

Stephen

[df3vi]

Just promises, but never got anything done. The thing is in the same half defunct state a year and a half later...

Btw, I always had the suspicion that the photo explorer is not fully zooming into photos. Now I found the exactly same photo on Panoramio and G+.
Zooming in on the G+ photo explorer, the photo is about 50% larger than on Panoramio's photo explorer. Here are the links:

Panoramio
Google Plus

Anyone else observing this?

[© Tom Cooper not going to Views]

Panoramio's Photo Explorer is supposed to show the entire image (i.e. "fit to viewer window").  If you click the "#" button, it will download the original, where you can zoom to the extent of the original image.

On the examples you give, Google+ zooms larger than the explorer view by cropping off the sides.  But in the explorer view, opening the original results in an image at least twice and perhaps three times the size of the G+ image.

BTW, why did you dredge up a thread that has been dead for over a year?

Tom

[df3vi]

Tom, it is different on my browser (Firefox): The original file in Panoramio has exactly the same size as you can zoom in on Google plus. Nothing is cropped there.

Also it is not so that Panoramio's photo explorer is limited to the viewer window; on large photos you can zoom in a lot. But never to 100%, it gets stuck at about 70%.

Am Samstag, 31. Januar 2015 15:53:59 UTC+1 schrieb © Tom Cooper not going to Views:

Panoramio's Photo Explorer is supposed to show the entire image (i.e. "fit to viewer window").  If you click the "#" button, it will download the original, where you can zoom to the extent of the original image.

On the examples you give, Google+ zooms larger than the explorer view by cropping off the sides.  But in the explorer view, opening the original results in an image at least twice and perhaps three times the size of the G+ image.

BTW, why did you dredge up a thread that has been dead for over a year?

Tom

On Friday, January 30, 2015 at 12:13:46 PM UTC-6, df3vi wrote: