fullscreenmode and rect of a substack on mobile device ?

[Brian Milby]

Line 14 is required on iPad.  Otherwise the controls stay where they
originated (behind the browser).  There is really no need to hide the icons
anyway though... they will be below the physical screen when in landscape
mode.  That saves 2 lines :)

On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 9:49 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> On Android, hiding and showing a group works as expected, I don't need to
> loop through the controls to show them. At first I thought they weren't
> being drawn, but in fact the whole group was below the bottom of the stack.
> --
> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
> On August 19, 2018 6:23:00 PM Brian Milby via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
> I did figure out that within preOpenCard, the reported stack rect is still
>> the dimensions of the saved stack file (at least on iOS).  There is also
>> the detail that when you hide a group, it sets all of the objects to
>> hidden
>> which has to be undone in a loop.  I've worked out moving the group and
>> the
>> background grc, still looking at the math for the widget buttons.  This
>> would probably be a good place for the Navigation Bar with the option to
>> select none of the icons (PR submitted, still pending).
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 5:31 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <
>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>
>> Android does receive orientationChanged messages. I've been tinkering with
>>> Swami's test stack, and dynamic positioning (no fullscreenMode) works
>>> fine
>>> with some effort.
>>>
>>> The footer isn't a widget, it's a group containing half a dozen controls,
>>> so they all need to be individually managed. You were right that they
>>> weren't in the correct position on Android.
>>>
>>> Swami's real project has thousands of controls over many hundreds of
>>> unique cards. I'd hate to be the one to write all the positioning scripts
>>> for that. But for a single instance where he's having issues, turning off
>>> fullscreenMode for just that card is a feasible solution.
>>>
>>> On 8/19/18 4:05 PM, Brian Milby via use-livecode wrote:
>>>
>>> You probably still want to set the rect for the footer to be sure it
>>>> lands
>>>> where you want it on different size devices.  That could be done in the
>>>> preOpenCard handler (just put it where it needs to be for portrait)
>>>>
>>>> on preOpenCard
>>>>     local tWidth, tHeight, tFooterRect
>>>>     put the width of this stack into tWidth
>>>>     put the height of this stack into tHeight
>>>>     if tWidth > tHeight then
>>>>        put 0,tWidth-50,tHeight,tWidth into tFooterRect
>>>>     else
>>>>        put 0,tHeight-50,tWidth,tHeight into tFooterRect
>>>>     end if
>>>>     set the rect of widget "footer" of me to tFooterRect
>>>>     resizeStack tWidth, tHeight
>>>> end preOpenCard
>>>>
>>>> If the Pixel does receive the orientationChanged messages, then you
>>>> could
>>>> use my first example.  That code does actually work on the iPhone, it is
>>>> just not necessary to manage it by hand like that.
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 2:40 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via
>>>> use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> @Brian Milby
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
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>>> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
>>> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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