fullscreenmode and rect of a substack on mobile device ?

[Richard Gaskin]

Brian Milby wrote:
 > I can't speak directly to Android, but once you start doing resize
 > handlers, I can't see using fullscreenmode.  If you are going to
 > position anything, may as well position it based on actual device
 > metrics.

That's all I was getting at when I wrote:
"FullScreenMode makes handling dynamic layout details complex."

Consider what FSM does. It stretches the card or adds empty space around it.

Then look at the apps on your phone.

Then determine how well FSM will support the type of layout your own 
apps need.

Depending on the app, FSM may be great.  But on my phone I have exactly 
one app that uses layout logic anything like it.  Everything else uses 
explicit placement.

FSM is very good for what it is, but it isn't a magic pony. In software 
design the only magic pony is the designer: our devotion applying the 
same tender loving care to scripting the user interface that we use when 
writing any other code.

The great thing with us LC scripters is that we've already been 
adjusting controls for resizable windows for many years, so we can 
leverage all that experience.

Extra bonus points that you can test scripted placement within the IDE 
in the simplest way possible: just resize the stack window you're 
working on.


Most of the lengthier discussions I've seen about layout handling here 
and on the forums stem from attempting to get precise control from FSM. 
In some cases it may be possible to mix FSM with scripted placement, but 
as you suggest it's often murkier than just having precise control over 
everything without bringing FSM into it at all.

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