fullscreenmode and rect of a substack on mobile device ?

[Brian Milby]

I was mistaken on the show/hide thing.  The controls were behind the
browser the whole time.

On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 9:55 PM, Brian Milby <brian at milby7.com> wrote:

> 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
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
>>>> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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