Orientation Support Mobile

[Mike Kerner]

Yes, I know I can see what the orientation is, but it's the forcing of some
cards to render a certain way, no matter what that is causing a problem.

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Ralph DiMola <rdimola at evergreeninfo.net>
wrote:

> Mike,
> When you are processing the resizestack message you can determine the
> orientation using mobileOrientation(). Or better use my PorL()
> function(included in the simulcast materials) so you can test in the IDE
> and know what it will look like on the mobile device.
>
> Ralph DiMola
> IT Director
> Evergreen Information Services
> rdimola at evergreeninfo.net
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On
> Behalf Of Mike Kerner
> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2014 9:48 AM
> To: How to use LiveCode
> Subject: Re: Orientation Support Mobile
>
> Thanks, Ralph, now I have something else to try, today!
>
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 1:39 AM, Ralph DiMola <rdimolad at evergreeninfo.net>
> wrote:
>
> > Mobile Orientation change cookbook:
> > 1. Device is flipped.
> > 2. The resizestack message is sent before the card is rendered
> > (orientationchanged message is sent after).
> > 2. In the resizestack handler reposition your controls.
> > 3. During this message no screen updates are done.
> > 4. The user will see the screen flip with the previous layout.
> > 5. When the resizestack message completes the new layout is rendered.
> > 6. Pass the resizestack message after repositioning your controls or
> > strange things will occur.
> >
> > This works equally well with both Android and iOS.
> >
> > Now I don't know how this works if you're changing cards as I
> > reposition controls on the same card. I would guess opening a new card
> > in the resizestack message will yield similar results.  I will try it
> > when I get back.
> >
> > Ralph DiMola
> > IT Director
> > Evergreen Information Services
> > rdimola at evergreeninfo.net
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > <div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Mike Kerner <
> > MikeKerner at roadrunner.com> </div><div>Date:09/07/2014  20:38
> > (GMT-08:00)
> > </div><div>To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
> > </div><div>Subject: Re: Orientation Support Mobile </div><div>
> > </div>Well, for starters:
> > 1) You can't seem to force LC to render a card in one orientation or
> > the other and then understand what you're forcing it to do.  There
> > doesn't seem to be a command to do it.  MobileSetAllowedOrientations
> > doesn't help.  So if you support P and L, but certain cards are one
> > way and certain the other, and the app opens in the one you didn't want,
> you have an issue.
> > Let's say you do mobileSetAllowedOrientations to portrait, and you
> > flip the device sideways.  When you open the app, the app will render
> > in portrait, but it will think that its width and height are for
> > landscape, which makes rendering a bit challenging.
> > 2) How do you lay out your cards for P and L?  You could have custom
> > properties, (do it the old MG way, before MG stopped supporting
> > rotating), but that creates a layout issue, in that you have to build
> > the properties for as many objects as you have on a card, and then
> > deal with rearranging the layout when the orientation changes.
> > 3) If you try to overcome #2 with a substack for P and a substack for
> > L, then you have an event issue, because going from card 1 of substack
> > P to card 2 of substack L isn't going to send a closeCard event to
> > card 1 of substack P, which means that if you were using closeCard to
> > dispose of your native controls...you have to do something else, and
> > the transition isn't smooth.
> > 4) There are issues with getting LC to render objects consistently
> > when switching orientations, which I would imagine is why John stopped
> > supporting orientation switching in MG.  Sometimes, when you rotate
> > the device, not everything goes where one might hope it would.  I
> > still haven't gotten to the bottom of that one.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 10:04 PM, Colin Holgate <coiin at verizon.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > > I have used landscape and portrait in the same app outside of
> > > LiveCode, and certainly ran into issues. I think that in LiveCode
> > > you would want to enable all orientations, then listen for the
> orientationChanged message.
> > > Then, in theory, you could react accordingly.
> > >
> > > Can you go into more detail about issues you’ve hit?
> > >
> > >
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On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth
On the second day, God created the oceans.
On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours,
   and did a little diving.
And God said, "This is good."