[Library] ViewExtender - Expand your views!

Kind regards,
Tomas

Sounds very cool. First thing I will check out Monday. The Relative and Linear layouts sound like what I was going for with my View Manager Class. It would be so cool if B4A had a way to layout views more like HTML/CSS and gave a way to just setup how you want and the OS/Library handles the layout on rotate, etc.

I don't understand how to use this library. I tried to create a GridView. No problem, but all useful functions to fill it with content are missing. I can fill it with the help of the reflection library, but I can also create a GridView with this library, so I don't really need something else if I have to use it. And I don't understand how to "extend" the existing views. A little help would be necessary.

The library extends the normal B4A view with more methods.
In your initialize method, you can specify the view.


something like this.

For the GridView and other layouts, I just created an object.
I'll provide more methods in later updates. I needed these views and layouts for a new library that I am making.

If you require any methods for the gridview, please let me know.

Tomas

Hi.

I have downloaded viewExtender and have put it in the additional libraries directory. But I don't know how to continue.

Does it show up as part of the designer?

What layouts are implemented?

Could you point the way for the unenlightened?

Thanks.

XverhelstX said:

The library extends the normal B4A view with more methods.
In your initialize method, you can specify the view.

B4X:

dim ve as viewextended
ve.initialize("EventName", vwButton)
ve.doanymethodhere

something like this.

For the GridView and other layouts, I just created an object.
I'll provide more methods in later updates. I needed these views and layouts for a new library that I am making.

If you require any methods for the gridview, please let me know.

Tomas

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Brilliant !
One of the best !!!!
thank you

Nice library!
I see a lot of potential in the rotation method alone

One thing though, every time I initialize the ViewExtender I get the following message in the log:
"PDFViewer has been initialized."

I don't get it either. I can create and initialize all of the new views listed above. For example I can create a LinearLayout but how do I add new views to this layout? I would expect something like the following:


It seems like these new views are simply that, views and not containers like Panel or ScrollView. I was thinking maybe the RootView or maybe AddOnLayoutChangeListener but neither one seems usable to me.

I would gladly donate if like Roger Garstang said we could develop layouts that flowed instead of coding view positions.

Is this library simply abandoned?