Re: about resolution independence...

2013-03-05 Thread Colin Holgate
On Mar 5, 2013, at 12:22 AM, Michael Mays wrote: > >If resolution independence is the ability within a particular ascpect I see there being three cases, two of which are naturally going to be taken care of, and one that I want to make sure that it's taken care of! The three cases are: 1. T

Re: about resolution independence...

2013-03-04 Thread Michael Mays
If resolution independence is the ability within a particular ascpect On Mar 1, 2013, at 4:56 AM, Colin Holgate wrote: > I know quite a bit about showing content at a size that is different to the > original document size, everything I make in Flash uses that ability, it lets > me make a sin

Re: about resolution independence...

2013-03-04 Thread Monte Goulding
What I might try and do is a screencast so people can at least see what I'm doing. It's very much an extension of the concepts that Chipp pioneered in his plugin. It scales some more properties and also has a geometry manager that's mobile centric (possible different layouts for each orientation

RE: about resolution independence...

2013-03-04 Thread Ralph DiMola
ssage- From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Monte Goulding Sent: Friday, March 01, 2013 4:46 PM To: How to use LiveCode Subject: Re: about resolution independence... On 02/03/2013, at 8:27 AM, Ian Wood wrote: > Resolution Independence is perfectly at

Re: about resolution independence...

2013-03-01 Thread Richmond
On 03/01/2013 11:27 PM, Ian Wood wrote: Resolution Independence is perfectly attainable. Aspect Ratio Independence is a separate but related issue, and vastly more complicated... ;) That is where I went wrong with my remark: not differentiating the two. Ian On 1 Mar 2013, at 20:46, Colin H

Re: about resolution independence...

2013-03-01 Thread Richmond
On 03/01/2013 10:46 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: In part I was saying that with Flash I do have resolution independence, and that if the Flash team can do it, then the LiveCode team should be able to. 'Can' is one word; a development team the size of Adobe's versus . . . is quite another. I won

Re: about resolution independence...

2013-03-01 Thread Monte Goulding
On 02/03/2013, at 8:27 AM, Ian Wood wrote: > Resolution Independence is perfectly attainable. Aspect Ratio Independence is > a separate but related issue, and vastly more complicated... ;) I will have something open source shortly for this. Quite a bit of code may become redundant in it once

Re: about resolution independence...

2013-03-01 Thread Colin Holgate
Still, for my non-utility situations, I'm aspect ratio independent in Flash. At least in the range of ratios I want to support (e.g., 4:3 through to 16:9). Supporting portrait and landscape is a layout issue rather than a resolution issue. That is, you're unlikely to have a single layout that ca

Re: about resolution independence...

2013-03-01 Thread Ian Wood
Resolution Independence is perfectly attainable. Aspect Ratio Independence is a separate but related issue, and vastly more complicated... ;) Ian On 1 Mar 2013, at 20:46, Colin Holgate wrote: > In part I was saying that with Flash I do have resolution independence, and > that if the Flash team

RE: about resolution independence...

2013-03-01 Thread Ralph DiMola
iday, March 01, 2013 3:46 PM To: How to use LiveCode Subject: Re: about resolution independence... In part I was saying that with Flash I do have resolution independence, and that if the Flash team can do it, then the LiveCode team should be able to. On Mar 1, 2013, at 3:23 PM, Richmond wrot

Re: about resolution independence...

2013-03-01 Thread Colin Holgate
In part I was saying that with Flash I do have resolution independence, and that if the Flash team can do it, then the LiveCode team should be able to. On Mar 1, 2013, at 3:23 PM, Richmond wrote: > > >Resolution Independence is another unattainable goal __

Re: about resolution independence...

2013-03-01 Thread Richmond
On 02/28/2013 10:56 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: I know quite a bit about showing content at a size that is different to the original document size, everything I make in Flash uses that ability, it lets me make a single file that works for all existing mobile screens. But, it would be easy for mos

Re: about resolution independence...

2013-02-28 Thread Monte Goulding
On 01/03/2013, at 8:36 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > And what it could be: > > If this mechanism could be applied to groups as well as cards, we could use > it to provide zoomable views for our users in all sorts of apps. Just as long as we are talking about rendering the objects at the correc

Re: about resolution independence...

2013-02-28 Thread Colin Holgate
Sure, and what I wrote too if it's of use. On Feb 28, 2013, at 4:36 PM, Devin Asay wrote: > This is a fantastic overview of the problem! Do you mind if I make these > links available to my students? We are studying how to make mobile apps with > LiveCode this semester, and the different resol

Re: about resolution independence...

2013-02-28 Thread Richard Gaskin
Colin Holgate wrote: > What it is not: Something that will automatically layout your > interface, using different styled buttons, or different arrangements > of controls. If you're doing an app that needs different layout for > portrait and landscape, or different buttons for small screens > comp

Re: about resolution independence...

2013-02-28 Thread Devin Asay
Colin, This is a fantastic overview of the problem! Do you mind if I make these links available to my students? We are studying how to make mobile apps with LiveCode this semester, and the different resolutions are a major issue. Thanks for this. Regards, Devin On Feb 28, 2013, at 1:56 PM,