Re: Quick query about where to look of resolution issues

2014-05-12 Thread Chris Sheffield
Graham,

As of my recent testing (last week) with LC 6.6.2 RC3, output to the console is 
alive and well. I’m not entirely sure when it was fixed, but it seems to be 
working again.

Chris

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Chris Sheffield
Read Naturally, Inc.
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On May 12, 2014, at 3:30 PM, Graham Samuel  wrote:

> (I think the availability of the OSX Console as an output has disappeared 
> hasn't it? 

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Re: Quick query about where to look of resolution issues

2014-05-12 Thread Graham Samuel
Great, Devin - just the guidance I was looking for. I am about to read it all. 

I am not looking forward to brushing up my knowledge of iOS testing (I think 
the availability of the OSX Console as an output has disappeared hasn't it? And 
there's all that mumbo jumbo about certificates...) but that is presumably the 
next step.

Anyway thanks again.

Graham

On 12 May 2014, at 23:15, Devin Asay  wrote:

> 
> On May 12, 2014, at 2:48 PM, Graham Samuel 
> wrote:
> 
>> I've been banging away at LC desktop stuff for a long time, and have not 
>> been unduly worried about resolution issues in LC since my current apps make 
>> pretty simple assumptions about screen sizes etc. I'm about to plunge back 
>> into mobile stuff (iOS, principally) and I need to start understanding what 
>> is available to help with things like retina vs non-retina, different screen 
>> sizes, not having font sizes that are smaller than the eye can see etc. I 
>> got the idea that, really quite a long time ago, RunRev made great strides 
>> in helping developers deal with such issues, but I can't easily find a 
>> summary of what is now available. AFAICS there is nothing, really nothing, 
>> in the User Guide (the word "resolution" appears three times, two of those 
>> in relation to printing...).
>> 
>> Can anyone give me pointers to descriptions of what LC has in its box of 
>> tricks for these issues? I am happy to read anything (other than Apple 
>> Development documentation, which appears to be written in Martian) but I 
>> just don't know where to start.
> 
> Graham,
> 
> The good news is that scaling and resolution independence support are now 
> built in to v. 6.5 and higher, and it's pretty easy to support all sizes and 
> resolutions of mobile screens. The fullScreenMode property is your friend 
> here. There are a couple of good tutorials at livecode.com:
> 
> http://lessons.runrev.com/s/lessons/m/15262/l/156477-how-do-i-make-my-app-scale-to-fit-the-screen-on-all-devices
> 
> To handle image display at different screen densities there is one more 
> wrinkle you need to implement. See this tutorial:
> 
> http://lessons.runrev.com/s/lessons/m/15262/l/156530-how-do-i-support-different-device-screen-densities
> 
> This should get you started, and as I said, it's much, much easier than it 
> was before v. 6.5.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Devin
> 
> 
> Devin Asay
> Office of Digital Humanities
> Brigham Young University
> 
> 
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Re: Quick query about where to look of resolution issues

2014-05-12 Thread Devin Asay

On May 12, 2014, at 2:48 PM, Graham Samuel 
 wrote:

> I've been banging away at LC desktop stuff for a long time, and have not been 
> unduly worried about resolution issues in LC since my current apps make 
> pretty simple assumptions about screen sizes etc. I'm about to plunge back 
> into mobile stuff (iOS, principally) and I need to start understanding what 
> is available to help with things like retina vs non-retina, different screen 
> sizes, not having font sizes that are smaller than the eye can see etc. I got 
> the idea that, really quite a long time ago, RunRev made great strides in 
> helping developers deal with such issues, but I can't easily find a summary 
> of what is now available. AFAICS there is nothing, really nothing, in the 
> User Guide (the word "resolution" appears three times, two of those in 
> relation to printing...).
> 
> Can anyone give me pointers to descriptions of what LC has in its box of 
> tricks for these issues? I am happy to read anything (other than Apple 
> Development documentation, which appears to be written in Martian) but I just 
> don't know where to start.

Graham,

The good news is that scaling and resolution independence support are now built 
in to v. 6.5 and higher, and it's pretty easy to support all sizes and 
resolutions of mobile screens. The fullScreenMode property is your friend here. 
There are a couple of good tutorials at livecode.com:

http://lessons.runrev.com/s/lessons/m/15262/l/156477-how-do-i-make-my-app-scale-to-fit-the-screen-on-all-devices

To handle image display at different screen densities there is one more wrinkle 
you need to implement. See this tutorial:

http://lessons.runrev.com/s/lessons/m/15262/l/156530-how-do-i-support-different-device-screen-densities

This should get you started, and as I said, it's much, much easier than it was 
before v. 6.5.

Regards,

Devin


Devin Asay
Office of Digital Humanities
Brigham Young University


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Quick query about where to look of resolution issues

2014-05-12 Thread Graham Samuel
I've been banging away at LC desktop stuff for a long time, and have not been 
unduly worried about resolution issues in LC since my current apps make pretty 
simple assumptions about screen sizes etc. I'm about to plunge back into mobile 
stuff (iOS, principally) and I need to start understanding what is available to 
help with things like retina vs non-retina, different screen sizes, not having 
font sizes that are smaller than the eye can see etc. I got the idea that, 
really quite a long time ago, RunRev made great strides in helping developers 
deal with such issues, but I can't easily find a summary of what is now 
available. AFAICS there is nothing, really nothing, in the User Guide (the word 
"resolution" appears three times, two of those in relation to printing...).

Can anyone give me pointers to descriptions of what LC has in its box of tricks 
for these issues? I am happy to read anything (other than Apple Development 
documentation, which appears to be written in Martian) but I just don't know 
where to start.

TIA

Graham

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