On 26/07/2012, at 10:42 AM, Scott Rossi wrote: > 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?
Worst case scenario I guess is that you can't and so you build a 'universal' app that allows the user to choose the layout (phone or tablet) the first time they use it. On subsequent launches the app starts up with the preferred layout. Terry... > > 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 > Dr Terry Judd Senior Lecturer in Medical Education Medical Eduction Unit Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences The University of Melbourne _______________________________________________ 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