Ok, Noob here... First post, probably the beginning of many. Still trying to get my bearings. I know how to do searches in the forums. I come from the PowerBasic community. I'm building my first Android App. Hello all.
One step back. Is there a basic tutorial that describes what I call "controls" or Addview items in the designer?
I'm looking at Panels. It seems people describe them as stretchable backgrounds that can resize a series of controls. Some also use them for creating tabbed sliding windows. I just need a starter.
I would like to create two screens that the user can easily navigate back and forth with a slide.
I'm also spending a lot of time resizing my controls to fit multiple devices. I see the designer scripts section and I seem to have a good handle on it, but my trial and error runs are getting annoying.
I have an EditText control (Description) and a label control (Desc_BG) that provides a white background to the Description. I want both controls to almost fill the width of the screen. If the screen is portrait I want the height to be larger. Am I doing this right? Any suggestions for improvement would be great. For some reason, the If statement doesn't seem to be working. This code is in the designer scripts section.
Jeff
One step back. Is there a basic tutorial that describes what I call "controls" or Addview items in the designer?
I'm looking at Panels. It seems people describe them as stretchable backgrounds that can resize a series of controls. Some also use them for creating tabbed sliding windows. I just need a starter.
I would like to create two screens that the user can easily navigate back and forth with a slide.
I'm also spending a lot of time resizing my controls to fit multiple devices. I see the designer scripts section and I seem to have a good handle on it, but my trial and error runs are getting annoying.
I have an EditText control (Description) and a label control (Desc_BG) that provides a white background to the Description. I want both controls to almost fill the width of the screen. If the screen is portrait I want the height to be larger. Am I doing this right? Any suggestions for improvement would be great. For some reason, the If statement doesn't seem to be working. This code is in the designer scripts section.
B4X:
Desc_BG.Top = FileName.Bottom+5dip
Desc_BG.Width=100%x-5dip
Desc_BG.HorizontalCenter = 50%x
Description.Top = FileName.Bottom+5dip
Description.Width=100%x-5dip
Description.HorizontalCenter = 50%x
If activity.width < activity.height Then
Desc_BG.Height = 60
Description.Height = 60
Else
Desc_BG.Height = 30
Description.Height = 30
End If
Jeff