Looking for feedback and advice

Xsoldier2000

Posting this for any newcomers like me that weren’t really pointed in any direction, and don’t know the terminology in which to search for answers.

Advice (right or wrong) on current setup
A: I don’t really have answer for this, I know what I did to correct my issues, but don’t fully understand the why of it all.
Extend the event name for less wrap-around
A: maxTitleLength, maxLocationTitleLength & maxLocationEvents (look at the Config details on the github of the module) is what worked for me.
Show Location (if any) of event? (line below possible?)
A: showLocation: true,
Extend EXT3 to bottom of screen in this position
A: this took a lot longer to figure out, but using Dev mode is what made me figure it out. I was trying to use a height: XXXXXpx; (in the .css module content) which was making the screen jump up like half a page…in Dev mode, found the body module was way oversized, changed the height parameter to 100% and that fixed the jumping issue, then figured out in the EXT3 module, I could increase the maxEventLines to expand the module to the bottom of the screen (look at the Config details on the github of the module), works perfect now.
Reconfigure EXT3 module correctly?
Answered in #4 above.

***I still don’t know what the body is or does, but I now know it should match your screensize (i believe) There is also something in the EXT3 module that makes the height parameter not work which is probably by design, because stretching a module would probably make it look weird, thankfully adding event lines is builtin. Going back and reading all the modules on github made me figure everything out. Uploading the final result. ***

sdetweil

@Xsoldier2000 when you say look at github, what do you mean? the module README.md file is what is shown for the module github page. after git clone, you have that on your system and can view ut at any time

for Ext3 it has definitions and explanations of the css variables used to size the content, and calendar cells to hold the content

MagicMirror is a web page, shown in a browser. all the content ( module output) is generated dynamically by javascript code.

an html page contains two major elements

head - documents scripts and css files used on this page
body - holds the displayable context. text, ,tables, graphs, images, etc

the design of that page can be seen in the index.html file in the MagicMirror folder

all the script and css files are added by the MagicMirror runtime for each active module

css/main.css holds the styling for the default page and modules
including the size abd shspe of the page and spaces(regions) for module content

as you have discovered the Ext3 family of modules is one of the most CSS configurable modules available

sdetweil

@Xsoldier2000 for your 3, you should indicate what module that property applies to.

Ext3 css height property not working… well
as you found ext3 calculates the size base on num event lines, event line height, number of calendar week rows shown, etc, all set with --xxx css variables described in the module doc(readme file)

which are all overridable (changable) in/using custom.css

Xsoldier2000

@sdetweil said in Looking for feedback and advice:

head - documents scripts and css files used on this page
body - holds the displayable context. text, ,tables, graphs, images, etc

That makes sense now, as you can tell I’m not fully versed in the understanding of these things. Now I know.

@sdetweil said in Looking for feedback and advice:

when you say look at github, what do you mean?

I honestly didn’t even know it was showing the README.md file until you brought it up and I just went back to see. (I associate https://github.com/MMRIZE/MMM-CalendarExt3 to a webpage, but it’s kind of a different setup. First real time using github ever)

I’m the kind of guy that puts things together first, then when it doesn’t work right, I read the instructions…makes life … difficult sometimes.

Thank you for all this info. It helps an old GI like me.

sdetweil

@Xsoldier2000 nobody reads the documentation!

sdetweil

@Xsoldier2000 the thing you see on github IS a web page dynamically constructed from a list of files in the project repository AND a rendering of a readme if one is found, and some other github project mgmt services, issues, fixes, …