Widget Properties

[Graham Samuel]

Thanks Jacque

You’re adding to my gloom about widgets being offered as native controls - the only reason they were produced AFAIKS was to produce a superior result to whatever else was on offer, and if they don’t, why bother? I have a feeling not many people are trying to use them - you don’t for example, and so far nobody on this list has come to their defence. Perhaps LC’s widget factory is right to put their energies elsewhere.

Graham

> On 25 Apr 2020, at 00:03, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> My suggestion was just to see what properties are available in the widget. But when I just tried it, I see that it doesn't respond in the IDE, what you see is just a placeholder. You can search for "ios native button" in the dictionary, where I see only two available properties: enabled and label.
> 
> If the widget author doesn't support the rest of them, they don't exist. I do see that you can resize the rectangle, but since I don't use the native buttons I'm not sure if the size will be retained on an iPhone or whether it just defaults to the standard native size.
> 
> Typically only the properties that the author has supported will appear in the property inspector.
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> 
> On 4/24/20 3:35 PM, Graham Samuel via use-livecode wrote:
>> Thanks Jacque - info safely stored in my “how to make a mobile app look like one” archive!
>> Thanks for the other info about properties - how would you then refer to a property that isn’t shown in the Property Inspector for a widget, such as fontColor (or whatever)? I assume the array is just a way of accessing the whole collection and not the route to setting an individual property - but I’m probably wrong.
>> Graham
>>> On 24 Apr 2020, at 20:26, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 4/24/20 3:37 AM, Graham Samuel via use-livecode wrote:
>>>> As my app took shape, I noticed how unlike a typical iPhone app it looked, mostly because I was using the controls I was familiar with, such as radio buttons and ordinary fields. I wondered if my users might find its interface unfamiliar. Therefore I have been seeking to make my app’s user interface look and feel more like other iPhone apps. I have already had a lot of help from this list, but it seems there is no one packaged solution to getting an ‘iPhone look and feel’.
>>> 
>>> You mentioned the iOS native button doesn't look right. If it makes you feel better, the Android one doesn't either. So what I did was use a round-rect graphic as a button. Set the linesize to 1 and the round radius to 8. You can set the border color and the text color.
>>> 
>>> I use the same graphic for Android. Sometimes Android buttons have a fill color, sometimes they are just borderless text. I adjust those properties based on platform. IOS buttons use sentence capitalization, Android buttons use all-caps. The label can be adjusted the same way based on platform.
>>> 
>>> It's an easy fix and looks native.
>>> 
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