Re: Resolution independence (sort of) today

2013-03-01 Thread Michael Hatch
If you haven't checked it out already, google the plug-in "altMobileResizer" by Chipp Walters. Scales locs, rects and text size proportionally or to the screen rect - Good stuff. Using his plug-in and setting each object to "resize" to the screen rect should be a fairly simple solution if your only

Re: Resolution independence (sort of) today

2013-03-01 Thread Graham Samuel
Thanks Colin and Chris. Pretty much my worst picture, but it's obviously doable. I have not used tmControl but I'll look into it. My app is a single-screen educational program with some simple game-like features, but no rapid movement. On the screen there are images (they're simplified photos

Re: Resolution independence (sort of) today

2013-03-01 Thread Chris Sheffield
Graham, In the case of One Minute Reader, it would kind of depend. Most of the time we used larger "retina" images and then scaled them down via script for the lower resolution iPad. This worked well, it's fast, and quality was pretty decent. There were exceptions to this where sometimes it was

Re: Resolution independence (sort of) today

2013-03-01 Thread Colin Holgate
As things stand you have to do all the work yourself, but you could do that with layout or code, and which to use might depend on the nature of the app. Your easiest option is to not worry about Retina for now, and then when there is resolution independence you can release an update, where a big

Resolution independence (sort of) today

2013-03-01 Thread Graham Samuel
Thanks Colin Holgate for your excellent explanation of what resolution independence is and isn't, or rather what it could be when implemented. I have an issue in this area right now, and I suppose I will find the answer in the docs somewhere, but meanwhile could some one give me a quick answer?