Interactive highlight for Ice Age button needs to expand dynamically

[Nancy-Salpepi]

Test device
MacBook Air M1 chip

Operating System
13.5

Browser
Safari 16.6

Problem description
For phetsims/qa#970, the interactive highlight for the Ice Age button doesn't expand when I change locale.

Steps to reproduce

1. Add ?stringTest=dynamic to end of url
2. Turn on Interactive Highlights in the Preferences Menu
3. On either the Waves or Photons screen, select the byDateRadioButton
4. Press the right arrow key to expand the text
5. Mouse over the iceAgeRadioButton
   --This is also seen using keyboard nav

Visuals
In Greek:

Troubleshooting information: !!!!! DO NOT EDIT !!!!! Name: ‪Greenhouse Effect‬ URL: https://phet-dev.colorado.edu/html/greenhouse-effect/1.2.0-dev.2/phet/greenhouse-effect_all_phet.html Version: 1.2.0-dev.2 2023-08-10 04:15:01 UTC Features missing: applicationcache, applicationcache, touch Flags: pixelRatioScaling User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/115.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Language: en-US Window: 1407x729 Pixel Ratio: 2/1 WebGL: WebGL 1.0 (OpenGL ES 2.0 Chromium) GLSL: WebGL GLSL ES 1.0 (OpenGL ES GLSL ES 1.0 Chromium) Vendor: WebKit (WebKit WebGL) Vertex: attribs: 16 varying: 31 uniform: 1024 Texture: size: 16384 imageUnits: 16 (vertex: 16, combined: 32) Max viewport: 16384x16384 OES_texture_float: true Dependencies JSON: {}

[jbphet]

This is bringing two problems with our code to light, both in the common code.

The first is that interactive highlights don't resize with dynamic layout changes. I'm going to assign this to @jessegreenberg and @jonathanolson for their take on this. It may be a known problem or something new, but they can let us know.

The second is that rectangular radio button groups are not getting resized correctly when the size of individual buttons change, which they should. I'll assign this to @marlitas and @jonathanolson to get their input on this portion.

[jbphet]

For the record, here is an example of it happening in a more "real" case, which is when switching from English to Arabic.

[jbphet]

@arouinfar - This is a bit of an edge case and will involve changes to common code to fix. I would consider it non-blocking for the release. What's your take?

[jessegreenberg]

I opened the above issue for the highlights and pushed a potential fix which is ready for review.

[arouinfar]

This is a bit of an edge case and will involve changes to common code to fix. I would consider it non-blocking for the release. What's your take?

I wouldn't consider this blocking either, but looks like we won't have to make that call. Thanks @jessegreenberg!

[jbphet]

The fix that @jessegreenberg committed is an improvement, but doesn't quite fully resolve the problem, see phetsims/sun#851 (comment). I've created another issue for working on the dynamic layout, see phetsims/sun#852.

[marlitas]

I commented in phetsims/sun#852. I will continue to take a look in there. Just want to confirm that this is not blocking greenhouse.

Unassigning.

[Nancy-Salpepi]

Noting that this issue is still present in phetsims/qa#1033

[arouinfar]

Thanks for reporting @Nancy-Salpepi. @jbphet this issue does not block Greenhouse interviews, but it would be nice to address before publishing the next version.

[jonathanolson]

I believe this should be working based on recent commits (including one above), can you verify?

[Nancy-Salpepi]

This is working nicely on main JO!

[jonathanolson]

Thanks, closing!