iOS popover position

Monte Goulding monte at sweattechnologies.com
Tue Nov 20 17:53:22 EST 2012


On 21/11/2012, at 9:38 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> On 11/20/12 3:05 PM, Monte Goulding wrote:
>> Hmm... Popovers don't exist on android as far as I know. If its a
>> contextual menu then mergPopMenu presents the appropriate native UI
>> (like the menu from a field selection) that your users will expect.
>> mergPopSheet presents an action sheet (not a popover with a table
>> view in it) which is also more appropriate for actions rather than
>> selections. If android doesn't have the pointer to the line which as
>> far as I know it doesn't then using the mobilePick command there
>> would work. So it would seem that a simple control structure is all
>> you need rather than hacking some button to be in line with where the
>> user touches.
> 
> Yes, you're right of course. I've already got the button working though, it was pretty painless, just two lines of code. Next time, maybe; I've already way overrun budget on this project. It's a balancing act.

I know all about balancing acts. Good luck with it.

Cheers

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