resizing datagrids on mobile

[Monte Goulding]

Hmm... A real table would have many more limitations and would be much harder to work around those than the datagrid.

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mergExt - There's an external for that!

On 01/10/2012, at 7:54 AM, Andre Garzia <andre at andregarzia.com> wrote:

> Hi Monte,
> 
> I think we need real tables, not the datagrid. Even though the datagrid is
> a really impressive proof of what can be done with LiveCode alone, it is
> really hard to use some times.
> 
> The whole business of resizing everything, recalculating font sizes and
> text heights is getting on my nerves. :-)
> 
> 
> On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 5:52 PM, Monte Goulding <monte at sweattechnologies.com
>> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Andre
>> 
>> It's not that complicated. Just resize everything on the template and
>> reset the datagrid. Any use of pixels in your layout script needs to be
>> altered to add a scaling factor but other than that your good. You also
>> need to change the line height if you have a fixed height form. I haven't
>> tested this with tables yet.... Not sure if I'd use a table on a mobile
>> anyway.
>> 
>> I'm considering adding this to mergDataGridScroller. I recently added
>> (haven't released yet) bouncing which is cool.
>> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>> --
>> M E R Goulding
>> Software development services
>> 
>> mergExt - There's an external for that!
>> 
>> On 01/10/2012, at 2:39 AM, Andre Garzia <andre at andregarzia.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hey Folks,
>>> 
>>> Have anyone here tried resizing a datagrid on mobile platforms? Resizing
>>> the rect of the grid is easy but how do we resize cell size and textsize?
>>> At this moment I am rolling my poor version of a datagrid like table
>>> because I can't think of a way to resize the inner controls of the
>> datagrid.
>>> 
>>> =/
>>> 
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