B4J Question [ABMaterial] how to reduce vertical space in a control?

[rbirago]

Sometimes (specially for a small device) the screen space is precious.
As you can see in this sample:

the question is: how to reduce the vertical space between the title of field and the content and between content and lower underline?
It is not a control margin/padding, because margin/padding is the space between controls. I mean spacing between the components of the control itself.
Thank you.
Roberto

 

[Cableguy]

Most visual effects/changes in ABMATERIAL are made using the components Theme, or directly within its properties. Further customization can be achieved using CSS but you really need to know your stuff.

 

[rbirago]

unfortunately I have not found theme's properties (ABMCombo, ABMInput) to adjust vertical space between content and header/footer of the control. Any other suggestion?

 

[Cableguy]

As I said, and as @alwaysbusy often says...
"It's AB Material, not AB Whatever you want"
It follows Google's Material visual Guide Lines!
So your only solution is to try CSS...

 

[rbirago]

Really I prefer to follow the main rules and not to alter it. Thanks for the help.

 

[alwaysbusy]

These type of components with animation have a rather complex CSS system behind them. There is .Narrow on some components you can try:

Dim inp1 As ABMInput
inp1.Initialize(page, "inp1new", ABM.INPUT_PASSWORD, "Nieuw paswoord (minimum 8 characters)", False, "onetwopwd")
inp1.Narrow = True

Alwaysbusy

 

[Harris]

Yes, small devices are a be-otch. (on some occasions - cards vrs table for example).
I encounter this all the time with ABM. The trick is - not to fight it - but accept it.
Otherwise, you descend down the rabbit hole of no return.... wasting precious dev time.

What is "good enough"? The alternative is many more magnitudes of what we have here (ABM).

 

[rbirago]

I agree to your warning: I have to think different...