iOS Question TabBarItem doesn't shown

[schimanski]

Where do I have to set the TabBarItem?

Private Sub Application_Start (Nav As NavigationController)
   
    TabController.Initialize("TabController")
    page1.Initialize("page1")
    page1.RootPanel.LoadLayout("Layout1")
   
    Dim Bm As Bitmap
    Bm=LoadBitmap(File.DirAssets, "test.png")
    page1.TabBarItem.Initialize("Test", Bm, Bm)

    page2.Initialize("page2")
    page2.RootPanel.LoadLayout("Layout2")   

    TabController.Pages = Array(page1, page2)
    App.KeyController = TabController

I have tried also different solutions (60x60, 75x75), but no result...

 

[Erel]

You need to set this property:

Dim tb As TabBarItem
tb.Initialize("Test", Bm, Bm)
page1.TabBarItem = tb

 

[schimanski]

Ok. it works, but why are they to big?

 

[Erel]

You should use 30x30 images. You can create a high scale image (60x60) and name it: <yourimage>@2x.png.

 

[klaus]

You may have a look at this Icon and Image Sizes.

 

[schimanski]

Yes, that's the problem..much thanks for your efforts, Erel and Klaus!!!

 

[klaus]

@schimanski
What size are the png images in the example in post #3, and on what device ?


@Erel
I tested with 60 x 60 pixel images and they look OK on my iPhone 6.

Changing one of the file names to [email protected] its size becomes half on my iPhone 6 !?

How and where is this handled, isn't iOS supposed to handle this automatically ?

 

[Erel]

Klaus, can you upload the icon file?

When an image file name ends with @2x (without the extension) then the image scale is set to 2. This means that the image is treated as a high resolution image.

If its original size was 60x60 then it will be mapped to 30x30 (scaled) pixels on a high resolution device.

 

[klaus]

The original file is 60 x 60 pixels.
I changed the name to [email protected] like your example in post #4, and was downsized.
Now I renamed it to xxx@2x according to your advice in post #8 and now it works as we expect it to work !

 

[Erel]

The correct name is with the extension. My previous post was a bit confusing.

It is expected to be downsized as it is now treated as a high resolution image.

 

[klaus]

Now I am a bit confused.
How do we need to handle this ?
What files and with what names do we need to cover the different densities and how are they treated by B4i or iOS ?

 

[Erel]

http://www.b4x.com/b4i/help/drawing.html#bitmap_initialize

The iPhone 6 screen non-normalized scale is 2.
The iPad non-normalized scale is 1.

The logical scale on all devices is 1. This is different than Android and this is why the 'dip' unit is not required in B4i as in B4A.
Lets say we have an image named image.png with the size of 100x100.
This means that when you load this image on iPhone 6, the image will not be super sharp as it is actually mapped to 200x200 real pixels.
So you can add an image named [email protected] with the size of 200x200.

You should still load image.png however on a high resolution device [email protected] will be loaded instead and its size will be 100x100 (because we are working with scaled pixels).
A message will be printed in the logs saying that the @2x image was loaded.

 

[schimanski]

Sorry, Klaus, I have seen your post to late. The icons in post #3 are 60x60 on my iphone 6 plus. Now I use the icons with 50x50 in @2x.png and it looks very great. Don't know how it is on other devices:

Most of the icons-packs i have downloaded are only in 50x50, so it is easier to work with...

 

[klaus]

To better understand what happens, could you post some of your images.
Attached mine 60 x 60 pixels.

 

[schimanski]

All images are 50x50:

 

[schimanski]

Mist, Klaus...wie krieg' ich denn datt Bild als Datei hochgeladen?

 

[klaus]

Are these files ? If yes use

.

 

[schimanski]

o.k.