iPhone 4 app in IPhone 5 simulator

[Jellicle]

Hi all

I've been updating an iOS app already on the app store so it'll run in iOS 6.

When I run the app in the iPhone 5 simulator the stack seems to resize to fill the new screen height instead of being centred at iPhone 4 size, which I understood is the intended behaviour with retina apps that have not been re-written to fill the height of the new screen size.

Why is that happening? What am I missing?

Gerry

[FireWorx]

When I ran my iPhone4 app in the iPhone5 Sim it left a 1/2 inch gap at the bottom. I had a couple html screens that I had programed to fill the screen - 80 pixels (to expose the bottom 80 pixel high button bar) . Since the screen height was longer on the iPhone5 the button bar was actually being covered by the html window. I re-programmed the stack to check if the devise was an iPhone 4 or 5 and if it was an iPhone 5 increase the height of the stack and relocate the bottom button bar on each of the 4 cards. This script worked.

if the environment is "mobile" then
put iphoneDeviceResolution() into tScreenResolution
if tScreenResolution is "640,1136" then
## its an iPhone5 so resize the stack and move the buton bar to the bottom of the screen
lock screen
set the height of this stack to 568
set the width of this stack to 320
repeat with x = 1 to the number of cards of this stack
put "IconBar" && x into groupToLocate
put "Panel" && x into PanelToLocate
##go to card x
set the bottomleft of group groupToLocate of card x to "0,568"
set the bottomleft of group PanelToLocate of card x to "0,568"
end repeat
unlock screen
go to card 1
end if
end if

Hope this helps. I just needed to whip up a quick fix to deal with the issue at hand.
Dave

[Jellicle]

Dave, thanks. Before I do the work to move stuff around (it would be a whole bunch of stuff I'd have to change, not just the button bar) I'd like to find out what should be happening - iPhone 4 apps written in Objective C seem to just run in the centre of the iPhone 5 screen without anything needing to be done..

All that said my app uses MobGUI. As that appears to be abandonware I have to consider whether a bigger rebuild is in order...

Gerry,

[gpb01]

Dave, thanks. Before I do the work to move stuff around (it would be a whole bunch of stuff I'd have to change, not just the button bar) I'd like to find out what should be happening - iPhone 4 apps written in Objective C seem to just run in the centre of the iPhone 5 screen without anything needing to be done..

... also my Apps written il LiveCode, if I do nothing for iPhone5, run in center of the iPhone5 screen so ... it's something you have in your configuration (stacks, scripts, standalone App settings, ...)

All that said my app uses MobGUI. As that appears to be abandonware I have to consider whether a bigger rebuild is in order...
Gerry,

There are new projects at RunRev, so ... stay tuned on future releases ...

Guglielmo