Help needed :)

Mon Oct 19 11:44:42 EDT 2020

Hi Panos,

my father in law came back earlier than expected.
You were correct. The phone display was zoomed.
I switched it back to "standard" and tested again.

With "standard" the screenrect returns  0,0,414,736

Regards,
Matthias

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Matthias Rebbe
Life Is Too Short For Boring Code

> Am 19.10.2020 um 17:34 schrieb matthias rebbe via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
> 
> 
> -
> 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 <mailto: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>>
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