Help needed :)

panagiotis merakos merakosp at gmail.com
Mon Oct 19 11:43:38 EDT 2020


Thanks Matthias, your help is much appreciated.

Kind regards
Panos

On Mon, Oct 19, 2020, 18:35 matthias rebbe via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

>
> -
> 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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