Thanks Jacque - info safely stored in my “how to make a mobile app look like one” archive!
Thanks for the other info about properties - how would you then refer to a property that isn’t shown in the Property Inspector for a widget, such as fontColor (or whatever)? I assume the array is just a way of accessing the whole collection and not the route to setting an individual property - but I’m probably wrong. Graham > On 24 Apr 2020, at 20:26, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > On 4/24/20 3:37 AM, Graham Samuel via use-livecode wrote: >> As my app took shape, I noticed how unlike a typical iPhone app it looked, >> mostly because I was using the controls I was familiar with, such as radio >> buttons and ordinary fields. I wondered if my users might find its interface >> unfamiliar. Therefore I have been seeking to make my app’s user interface >> look and feel more like other iPhone apps. I have already had a lot of help >> from this list, but it seems there is no one packaged solution to getting an >> ‘iPhone look and feel’. > > You mentioned the iOS native button doesn't look right. If it makes you feel > better, the Android one doesn't either. So what I did was use a round-rect > graphic as a button. Set the linesize to 1 and the round radius to 8. You can > set the border color and the text color. > > I use the same graphic for Android. Sometimes Android buttons have a fill > color, sometimes they are just borderless text. I adjust those properties > based on platform. IOS buttons use sentence capitalization, Android buttons > use all-caps. The label can be adjusted the same way based on platform. > > It's an easy fix and looks native. > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > > _______________________________________________ > 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