[Date Prev][Date Next]
[Chronological]
[Thread]
[Top]
Column width for three columns
- To: <support@gesn.com>
 
- Subject: Column width for three columns
 
- From: "Ken Clark" <ken@gesn.com>
 
- Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 10:04:35 -0500
 
- Importance: Normal
 
Posted on behalf of 
Tari and Knecht.  There are 32 channels on the AccuVote reader, which means 
that a three column ballot must have one of the three columns 10 channels wide 
and the other two 11.  The way the columns are calculated was changed 
in 1.14 to support landscape ballots.  Doing a quick test on 1.16.9, it 
looks like the current behavior is 11, 11, 10;  however, Tari seems to 
indicate that some of her accounts have a "narrow" first column.  This is 
causing width problems with the presidential race.  If this is the case, please 
send me a copy of the database in question so I can take a 
look.
 
Note that there is 
no real "bug" here.  No matter what, some column needs to be 10, and 
whatever column we choose is not going to work for some ballot 
layout.  The correct answer to this problem is a long 
standing to-do (don't think there is an RCR) to be able to define the 
column widths.  Its not trivial because the correct user interface is a 
ruler-like control where you can drag around the widths.  This might be a 
good enough excuse to get around to it though.  I'll let you know more once 
I have seen the database.
 
Ken