Maarten Koopmans wrote:
Subject says it all: does anyone have a clue or a sample handler that
they know off? This is a real nuisance otherwise :(
There's a request in the RQCC for generalized scaling:
<http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6589>
Useful as it is for things like some games, anything with controls on it
will require the developer to write a resizeStack handler to position
things appropriately for both the current device and the current
orientation.
Now that I have a great tablet with the Asus Transformer, it drives me
crazy to download apps only to find that they merely scale their display
for tablets, rather than take full advantage of the larger form factor
with a unique layout optimized for it. I don't need 5" wide buttons, I
need more of a view on the content. ;)
And with orientation, if an app only works in one orientation on my
tablet I generally uninstall it immediately after I discover that. I
like both portrait and landscape orientations for different purposes,
and if an app doesn't adapt to me I'm not going to adapt to the app -
simpler just to uninstall and find one that was crafted more earnestly.
With LiveCode we have the resizeStack message, sent when the app opens
and whenever the device orientation changes. We can use the screenrect
to intelligently reposition things to provide an optimal experience on
any device.
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World
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