Looking forward, it seems you're right: being able to lay out a stack at a specific resolution would be useful long term. I'm not up to speed on Android, but last I saw, LiveCode wasn't able to detect Android display density. If that's still the case, it would seem to be a problem since how would you distinguish between a phone with ultra high density and a tablet with low density?
Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design Recently, Monte Goulding wrote: > OK Scott, should we continue on list or move off. It might be good to continue > on list for a while to see who's keen to be involved. > > Continuing to think out loud on this. One thing we want to be able to do is > work in whatever density we like and then have everything still scale right. > So what about the framework mainstack has a density property. On mobile this > is worked out during preOpenStack and on desktop it would default to mdpi but > be settable so you can use whatever you want. This is independent of stack > size and the setprop handler would cause the controls on the current card to > resize. > > One important thing to consider is inventing a cool non-developer specific > acronym and prefix for this thing ;-) My hope is it can handle more than just > this one issue. Thinks like preferences come to mind. > > My vote is for mafia - Mobile App Framework with Interface Adaptation ;-) > > -- > M E R Goulding > Software development services > Bespoke application development for vertical markets > > mergExt - There's an external for that! > > _______________________________________________ > 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
