freshcuber.de
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Is it not possible to open "My results" directly in the menu? Do I have to go to "Persons" and scroll down for my name?
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Changes to the Weekly Competition website
- Thread starter Mike Hughey
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Oops, sorry - added now. I just forgot to add it.
Oh, I may have figured it out: the boxes have a hard-coded height, so when the event name is two lines long (this depends on font rendering!) the contents don't fit within the border.
(I assume flexbox is the modern way to do the layout "correctly", but I'm not familiar enough with that to be of any help.)
Yes, but even a flexbox won't work here because I also need every box to be the same size. I need to guarantee that the text fits inside the box. Apparently the Forum code allows a greater variety of fonts than the old website, and the fonts displayed on some systems now are too big to fit in the box. I'll either have to limit the font options, or shorten the texts I use (by abbreviating, which is ugly), or make the boxes bigger (which is sad, because it would mean fewer boxes would fit across the screen). I'm hoping I can limit the font options. I'll try to figure out something today to fix it.
Edit: I figured out why it wasn't limiting the fonts properly. I think I've fixed it (by limiting the font choices), for these boxes anyway. I've decided not to change it for the rest of the site for now to try to maximize the flexibility of display, but if you see other places that need it, please let me know.
Edit: I figured out why it wasn't limiting the fonts properly. I think I've fixed it (by limiting the font choices), for these boxes anyway. I've decided not to change it for the rest of the site for now to try to maximize the flexibility of display, but if you see other places that need it, please let me know.
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freshcuber.de
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Hi Mike, can I bother you please with an extra wish, now that you are already coding?
I would like to see the events name in front of "Results" if it's not much work. Then you can see easily if these are 2x2 or Pyraminx solves, also if the screenshot is cropped for Instagram or things like that. Would that be possible and how do you like that suggestion?
That was easy enough to do and seemed harmless and possibly helpful, so I added it. Thanks for the suggestion.
freshcuber.de
Member
How great that you added it instantly. Thank you so much.
thomas.sch
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- Joined
- Dec 19, 2018
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- 14
Hello Mike,
I "work" now since some months with the weekly competition webpage and have some suggestions.
Suggestion 1: Layout, separate scrambles in relay events
I think it would be easier to read if 2 scrambles are separated. By a spacer or a line or something like that.
Suggestion 2: Layout, highlight alternate rows of longer scrambles
Sometimes if I am on the end of a line I loose orientation, especally Kilominx and Megaminx or Curvy, because every line has nearly the same lenght. So it would be easier if the alternation would be shown
Example:
Suggestion 3: Layout, Copy'n Paste of Scrambles
I know I can go into "Manual Entry" to copy the scramble but sometimes I am not 100% sure if my scramble was correct. So I just would like to copy it to a webpage to visualize the scramble and to check my cube against it and it is not possible to select the scramble on the competition page.
Suggestion 4: Weekly-Page-View for past weeks.
There is this nice overview of the personal results of a whole week, e.g. yours Mike: Current Week of Mike Hughey
If the current week is over there is no possibility to get this view again.
Would it be possible to have GET-Parameters in addition to showPerson=XXX for the year and the week?
Suggestion 5: The Blind-Events have this excellent feature to get the interim time after memo. The same feature for the relay events would be nice to get the time for each cube. At the moment I stop the relay times sometimes in csTimer but there I have to change the number for each attempt an this is annoying.
I know people are solving the cubes in different orders but I think everybody will know the order right after the attempt!
I "work" now since some months with the weekly competition webpage and have some suggestions.
Suggestion 1: Layout, separate scrambles in relay events
I think it would be easier to read if 2 scrambles are separated. By a spacer or a line or something like that.
Suggestion 2: Layout, highlight alternate rows of longer scrambles
Sometimes if I am on the end of a line I loose orientation, especally Kilominx and Megaminx or Curvy, because every line has nearly the same lenght. So it would be easier if the alternation would be shown
Example:
Suggestion 3: Layout, Copy'n Paste of Scrambles
I know I can go into "Manual Entry" to copy the scramble but sometimes I am not 100% sure if my scramble was correct. So I just would like to copy it to a webpage to visualize the scramble and to check my cube against it and it is not possible to select the scramble on the competition page.
Suggestion 4: Weekly-Page-View for past weeks.
There is this nice overview of the personal results of a whole week, e.g. yours Mike: Current Week of Mike Hughey
If the current week is over there is no possibility to get this view again.
Would it be possible to have GET-Parameters in addition to showPerson=XXX for the year and the week?
Suggestion 5: The Blind-Events have this excellent feature to get the interim time after memo. The same feature for the relay events would be nice to get the time for each cube. At the moment I stop the relay times sometimes in csTimer but there I have to change the number for each attempt an this is annoying.
I know people are solving the cubes in different orders but I think everybody will know the order right after the attempt!
@thomas.sch Thanks so much for your suggestions. I do have a bunch of other features backed up that I'm working on, so I might not be able to get to all of these immediately, but most of these seem doable. If nothing else, I should at least be able to make options that allow for your suggestions.
For your suggestion 4, there actually already is a GET parameter that will do it; I'm sorry there's no easy way to click to or select it, but it is possible by supplying the GET parameters in the URL. So, for instance, this shows your personal results for week 2020-35:
https://www.speedsolving.com/competition/showPerson.php?showPerson=5367&week=35&year=2020
Just add "&week=<weeknumber>&year=<yearnumber> to get any week and year.
Someday I really do hope to have an easy link to those, and a selector on the page to let you switch; I just need to get around to adding it.
For your suggestion 4, there actually already is a GET parameter that will do it; I'm sorry there's no easy way to click to or select it, but it is possible by supplying the GET parameters in the URL. So, for instance, this shows your personal results for week 2020-35:
https://www.speedsolving.com/competition/showPerson.php?showPerson=5367&week=35&year=2020
Just add "&week=<weeknumber>&year=<yearnumber> to get any week and year.
Someday I really do hope to have an easy link to those, and a selector on the page to let you switch; I just need to get around to adding it.
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thomas.sch
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- Dec 19, 2018
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- 14
Works like a charm! Thank you!
I do not need a selector because I want to make a crawler to this page so the call will be done by a program. At the moment I copy/paste the content of this page every week into a softeware I have written that converts my results into TwistyTimer-Format so that I can have all my times in one App on the Android phone.
But with this parameters I will crawl the page and parse the HTML-code.
The result is a time with the comment that the time was made in the weekly, which week and which attempt
