Why a new version? |
Primary reason: to make the main information small enough so that it can sit on the side of your screen always visible. Like in the picture below: |
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In order to make that happen, you may need to do two additional things: |
1. You want a very small window to
contain this schedule. Unfortunately, all browsers will
fight you on this. None of them allow you to squeeze their windows
smaller than a particular size that each of them dictates (each enforces
a different minimum width). Chrome is not very hospitable at this (unfortunately). Curiously enough, Internet Explorer seems to allow the smallest window. So, for you Windows users, you're in luck -- you already have Internet Explorer on your computer. Even if you're not currently using it, you can launch it for just the purpose of displaying the schedule. To launch it, press the Start button located on the lower-left corner of your screen, and just type the words: Internet Explorer and hit the Enter key. Then go to the address: http://bert.stuy.edu/pbrooks/schedules/schedules.py or just: tinyurl.com/stuyschedules (note: tinyurl.com/stuyschedule, without the trailing "s" was a student project) You can also make either address the "home" address on IE, and it will always start there when you launch IE. In you are already using IE, then just bring up a separate window using Ctrl-n, and then go to the address above. If IE is not available, you can either get it, or use your favorite browser, which may not be shrinkable to the same small size. |
1b. You want to reduce the size of the lettering. You can do this in browsers, in general, by using the Ctrl-minus keys to make things smaller, and Ctrl-plus (that's Ctrl,and Shift, and the + key) to make things larger. |
2. You want to make sure that this schedule window remains
"on top" of all other windows, independent of what the other
windows are doing. Otherwise, every time you click on some other
window to get any work done, the schedule window will disappear, and
you'll have to make it appear again by clicking on its icon on the task
bar at the bottom of your screen. Mac: I am told that the free "Helium" utility, available on the Mac store will do the job: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/helium/id1054607607?mt=12 It's a browser itself, and can be made small and "on top" of all other windows (folks seem to use it to watch videos while working on other things). |
Please send comments, bug reports, offers of kingdoms to: pbrooks at stuy.edu |