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Misplacement of slider and open-ended questions

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By shareli - 7/19/2014

Hi

I was running a script on the web. The script includesslider ratings and open ended questions. Some people were complaining that thetest of the slider questions and the sliders covered each other and that thebox to enter the text for the open ended questions were also misplaced.

I used % wherever possible to ensure that the position on ascreen is set by everyone’s own display settings. Any suggestions? Ideas as towhat may be the problem?

Thanks much

Shlomo
By Dave - 7/19/2014

Most likely there are too many elements on a given page to be rendered without overlap on machine's running at low resolution / relatively small screens. You should be able to test that for yourself by setting the /windowsize attribute in the script's <defaults> element to different values, e.g.

<defaults>
/ windowsize = (1280px, 800px)
...
</defaults>

and either reducing the number of elements or reworking their positions and sizes accordingly.
By shareli - 7/21/2014

Dear Dave
Thanks much
Shlomo
By IR - 8/12/2014

Hello,

I amrunning my experiment on the web and I am having problems with its presentationon screens with different resolutions.

I reducedthe content of the pages but since I present also pictures I would like to besure that participants have a minimum screen resolution so that they will notencounter problems in loading images.

Is there aparameter that I can add to my script that would verify participants’ screenresolution and not allow those with too low resolution to go on with theexperiment?

Thank youin advance for your help!

IR
By Dave - 8/12/2014

You can retrieve information about display dimensions via the display.width and display.height properties. See the documentation for the built-in <display> element for further details. You could then program your script to terminate in case the dimensions are below some threshold. E.g.

<expt>
/ onexptbegin = [if (display.width < 1024) script.abort();]
...
</expt>