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"Resistance in a Wire" is an educational simulation in HTML5, by PhET Interactive Simulations.
http://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulation/resistance-in-a-wire
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Reduce the amount of motion in the control panel title as the resistance changes #181

Closed jbphet closed 5 years ago

jbphet commented 5 years ago

@emily-phet said in #180:

[@ariel-phet] also mentioned that the resistance word is moving on the screen now that there are three decimal places. He would like that word fixed in place. Is that something you can do?

and

[@ariel-phet and @kathy-phet] would like something done to minimize the amount of 'jumping around' the resistance word does as the resistance value changes. Then it's good to go to move on to the next steps toward publication.

I'm creating this issue as a place to track commits made to address this "jumping around" problem.

jbphet commented 5 years ago

I just reviewed the revised behavior with @ariel-phet and he approved. This will be included in the next release. Closing.

jbphet commented 5 years ago

Reopening so that it can be verified on multiple platforms during the 1.6 release testing.

phet-steele commented 5 years ago

@jbphet "resistance" doesn't budge at all on my Win 10 Chrome! Although it does budge when using ?stringTest=double.

JRomero0613 commented 5 years ago

In testing I have noticed that "resistance" doesn't move at all when sliders are adjusted for values either below 1, or above 1. I think that this is because the motion in the "resistance" word occurs when changing from three decimal places to two as occurs when transitioning from R less than 1 to R greater than 1 or vice versa.

KatieWoe commented 5 years ago

@jbphet I'm seeing a bit of motion on Win 10 firefox. Not sure how pronounced it was before so posting a video here to determine acceptability. jumpresist

emily-phet commented 5 years ago

my 2 cents - this seems minor to me and not worth effort to fix.

jbphet commented 5 years ago

Good eye @KatieWoe.

We've seen things like this before in Firefox, and it's actually an issue with the fonts in the browser. So, given that there's not much we can do about it, and that it's minor enough that @emily-phet and @arouinfar agree that it's not worth the effort, I'm going to close this one.