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Re: Introducing the newest version of Sundial

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Originally Posted by artdutra04 View Post
As for feedback, I see that the page automagically resizes itself to best fit your screen size. However, on screens at or below 1024x768 resolution, some of the font sizes are on the borderline of being illegible from a few feet away. Can you have the page automatically fill the entire page width (i.e. no blue areas on the side of the screen) on the smaller screen resolutions, so the font sizes in the schedule, match results, etc. pages can be a bit larger?
I've shrunk the margins a bit, but I don't really like the way it looks without margins at all. I've also increased the size of the fonts on the countdown tab; the other tabs aren't really intended to be viewed from afar.

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Originally Posted by Greg Marra View Post
The right-most numbers in the countdown to the next match appear cut off on my computer. I am running 1440x900 Firefox 2.
Should be fixed now.

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Originally Posted by Greg Marra View Post
Will you have a version for teams who are scouting in the stands? It seems like getting rankings and match lists and all of this, on a laptop, would be extraordinarily useful for scouts.
Sundial should work in the stands as long as there's a signal, and there's no limit to the number of times a single team can connect. Team 296 typically has three or four instances running simultaneously.

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On a related note, did Sundial run at all last year?
It ran at BAE, UTC, Boston, and GTR, as well as in all four Championship divisions last year although there were a lot of problems with the NASA-provided wireless network.

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Originally Posted by Conor Ryan View Post
What would the requirements and the steps needed to set up a server at an event?
The possibility that's being considered is for FIRST to provide the setup at each event, seeing as the only way to get accurate scoring data is to pull it through a network link from the scoring system, as was done at the Championship last year. I'm not sure FIRST would allow any team to have such a link. That aside, all you need is a computer running Apache/PHP/MySQL/BIND, and a wireless router.

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Originally Posted by lukevanoort View Post
The only issue I see is the "Number of times your team has accessed the server" counter. Since it appears to count pageloads, the number can be somewhat misleading. (Apparentally 1114 had accessed it 649 times at the last time I checked)
That could possibly just have been me when I was testing it out. Every time the client app requests data from the server, a database field corresponding to the team number is incremented, and I didn't clear the statistics before copying my database from my computer to my webserver.

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One small thing though, when I fullscreen it, the right side white border gets chopped off. No information is missing, just the border.
Would you mind posting a screenshot of this?


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