The size of the applet has been set to 600 by 550. This enables all the stuff to fit snugly. Most displays these days use at least 800 by 600 pixels and so it should fit albeit a bit tightly.
Most browsers will allow you to hide buttons and other toolbars that will save you valuable real-estate. If need be, one can experiment with them.
Some browsers don't redraw the window when parts of the window are scrolled up. An easy way to fix this is force a redraw. Hit the Enter key in any field or once again choose Sex or whatever and redraw should occur.
We have found that this happens especially with Internet Explorer on PC's. It is due to the fact that Internet Explorer screws up colors when your display is set to use True Color. To fix this, do the following:
Printing an applet is not trivial since it has security implications. In fact, different browsers do it differently and some results are quite ridiculous. If you directly press the print button on the page containing the applet, some will give you a blank area where the applet graph is, some will print parts of it, others will print a graph different from what you are seeing in the page!
One way to print is to use signed applets which would require some work on your part to accept our digital certificate. Worse, it might incur some cost on our part to buy such a certificate. Besides, even that solution has not turned out to be optimal in our experiments. We have chosen a solution that imposes the least requirements on you, the user. This solution works by encoding your picture and sending it to our server which echoes it back as a static snapshot in a new window. It is this snaphshot that you get to print. We find that our method works quite reliably in most cases.
If you are having trouble printing, you should try to download the latest versions of browsers and try again. Be sure to even try switching from Netscape to Internet Explorer and vice-versa.
We have also found that the speed of your connection is a factor. Sometimes, it can take as long as 2--4 minutes for pages to appear. Also, in some cases, pressing the Print button again or forcing the browser to do some other calculation seems to flush out the pending print page. This must have something to do with the fact that the printing job which is done via a separate low priority thread is probably being scheduled differently by the java virtual machines in different browsers.
Until very recently, Java support on the Mac in browsers was problematic, especially with Netscape. Internet Explorer was slightly better, but one had to install the Mac MRJ software and force Internet Explorer to use the Apple Runtime for Java for everything to work properly. Since Netscape did not offer the choice of a java virtual machine, one was stuck. But even that did not solve all problems, for, the Apple Runtime for Java had no concept of a ``new window'' or a ``new menubar''. Everything was slapped on the desktop menu, leading to all sorts of confusion.
The bottomline is this: If you have a Mac, you will have trouble unless it has the latest operating system and Microsoft Internet Explorer. With anything else, you will certainly have trouble printing. Newer versions of Netscape and Internet Explorer will all show the applet, but Netscape will bomb on printing---the image will not show up. (BTW, this bug was reported to Netscape over 2 years ago by one of the authors, and they/Symantec haven't fixed it yet!).
We are sorry that any fixes on the Macintosh are beyond our control.