Help needed :)

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Matthias Rebbe
Life Is Too Short For Boring Code

> Am 19.10.2020 um 17:17 schrieb panagiotis merakos via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
> 
> Hmm I think I have found something - I had checked for this before - but in
> the wrong place.
> 
> @Matthias could you check if "Display Zoom" is enabled in your device?
> 
> This is in Settings -> Display and Brightness  and then scroll down and in
> the "Display Zoom" section, does it say "Standard" or "Zoomed" ?
> 
Believe me or not, that was something i thought also could be the culprit. But forgot to test, because i got an important phone call.

I will test this later today. I had to give the phone back to the owner, but can get it back in the evening.

Regards,
Matthias


> Kind regards,
> Panos
> --
> 
> On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 at 17:51, panagiotis merakos <merakosp at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hello Matthias,
>> 
>> Thank you very much for testing. Hmm that's interesting. I forgot to
>> mention that the affected iPhones 8+ are running iOS 14.
>> 
>> The simulator we tested was running iOS 13.3. I am wondering if this is an
>> iOS 14 issue.
>> 
>> We are working on adding support for building with Xcode 12 / iOS 14 SDK,
>> so once this is ready, I'll test on the iOS 14 simulator.
>> 
>> In the meantime, if anyone has an iPhone 6+/7+/8+ running iOS < 14 and
>> would like to check what "the screenrect" returns, it would be great :)
>> 
>> Kind regards,
>> Panos
>> --
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 at 17:24, matthias rebbe via use-livecode <
>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Panos,
>>> 
>>> i just borrowed me an iphone 8 Plus.  I can confirm that on the real
>>> device the screenrect returns 0,0,375,667
>>> Tried with all 3 variations (ipad, ipod&iphone, ipod/iphone/ipad) and
>>> with iOS 10,11,12,13.
>>> 
>>> iOS 14.01
>>> Modell MQ8L2ZD/A
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -
>>> Matthias Rebbe
>>> Life Is Too Short For Boring Code
>>> 
>>>> Am 19.10.2020 um 14:43 schrieb panagiotis merakos via use-livecode <
>>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
>>>> 
>>>> Heh I wrote that msg in my phone while I was in a hurry, and I now see
>>> the
>>>> auto-correct has changed a couple of things :)
>>>> 
>>>> Corrections:
>>>> 
>>>> * A LC user ...
>>>> 
>>>> * ...and it works as expected for us
>>>> 
>>>> Thank you :)
>>>> 
>>>> Panos
>>>> --
>>>> 
>>>> On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 at 14:58, panagiotis merakos <
>>> panos.merakos at livecode.com <mailto:panos.merakos at livecode.com>>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hello folks,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I LC user (or in fact a couple of this user's clients) are
>>> experiencing a
>>>>> strange issue which we cannot reproduce, as we do not have the specific
>>>>> hardware.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Long story short, "the screenrect" function returns for them incorrect
>>>>> values on an iPhone 8 Plus physical device. We have tested in the
>>> iPhone 8
>>>>> Plus simulator and it world as expected for us.
>>>>> 
>>>>> More specifically, the screenrect() returns 0,0,375,667 (which is the
>>>>> screenrect of iPhone8) instead of 0,0,414,736 (which is the screenrect
>>> of
>>>>> iPhone 8 Plus.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Do you have such a device and if yes, would it be possible to do a
>>> quick
>>>>> test and report here what you get?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks a lot :)
>>>>> 
>>>>> Kind regards,
>>>>> Panos
>>>>> 
>>>>> PS: I guess an iPhone 6 Plus or iPhone 7 Plus will do too, as all
>>> these 3
>>>>> devices have the same screen size.
>>>>> --
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> Panagiotis Merakos <panos.merakos at livecode.com <mailto:
>>> panos.merakos at livecode.com>>
>>>> LiveCode Software Developer
>>>> 
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