Help needed :)

[panagiotis merakos]

Great, thank you very much Matthias :)

I will file an enhancement request to make sure this behavior is documented
in the dictionary entry of the screenrect.

Kind regards,
Panos
--

On Mon, 19 Oct 2020 at 18:45, matthias rebbe via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> 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
>
> -
> 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>>
> >>>>> LiveCode Software Developer
> >>>>>
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