Thanks, Ralph, now I have something else to try, today! On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 1:39 AM, Ralph DiMola <rdimo...@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 > rdim...@evergreeninfo.net > > > > > <div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Mike Kerner < > mikeker...@roadrunner.com> </div><div>Date:09/07/2014 20:38 (GMT-08:00) > </div><div>To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@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 <co...@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? > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > use-livecode mailing list > > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > > subscription preferences: > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > > > > -- > 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." > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > -- 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." _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
