Preview of Resolution Independent Control library for RevMobile

[Terry Judd]

On 26/07/2012, at 10:42 AM, Scott Rossi wrote:

> Looking forward, it seems you're right: being able to lay out a stack at a
> specific resolution would be useful long term.  I'm not up to speed on
> Android, but last I saw, LiveCode wasn't able to detect Android display
> density.  If that's still the case, it would seem to be a problem since how
> would you distinguish between a phone with ultra high density and a tablet
> with low density?

Worst case scenario I guess is that you can't and so you build a 'universal' app that allows the user to choose the layout (phone or tablet) the first time they use it. On subsequent launches the app starts up with the preferred layout.

Terry...

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> Regards,
> 
> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director
> Tactile Media, UX Design
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> Recently, Monte Goulding wrote:
> 
>> OK Scott, should we continue on list or move off. It might be good to continue
>> on list for a while to see who's keen to be involved.
>> 
>> Continuing to think out loud on this. One thing we want to be able to do is
>> work in whatever density we like and then have everything still scale right.
>> So what about the framework mainstack has a density property. On mobile this
>> is worked out during preOpenStack and on desktop it would default to mdpi but
>> be settable so  you can use whatever you want. This is independent of stack
>> size and the setprop handler would cause the controls on the current card to
>> resize.
>> 
>> One important thing to consider is inventing a cool non-developer specific
>> acronym and prefix for this thing ;-) My hope is it can handle more than just
>> this one issue. Thinks like preferences come to mind.
>> 
>> My vote is for mafia - Mobile App Framework with Interface Adaptation ;-)
>> 
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>> M E R Goulding 
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>> mergExt - There's an external for that!
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Dr Terry Judd
Senior Lecturer in Medical Education
Medical Eduction Unit
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences
The University of Melbourne