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Native-looking settings on iOS
Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2014 9:28 pm
by richardmac
If you launch Apple's "Settings" app on iOS 7, you see the typical list of items with an icon to the left of each item and gray lines separating them. You also see a ">" at the end of each line. Touching a line makes a new screen slide on top of the old screen.
The Notes app works the same way.
Is there a way to do something like this in LiveCode without having to "spoof" the functionality with graphics?
Re: Native-looking settings on iOS
Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2014 2:15 am
by Nakia
If you actually want to integrate into the iOS settings app take a look at montes merg externals.
Merg settings does just that.
If it's more just the table object take a look at tmControls2 new table object.
It has an example of the settings pane..
Re: Native-looking settings on iOS
Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2014 7:40 pm
by FireWorx
TM2 is not available yet is it?
Re: Native-looking settings on iOS
Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2014 9:35 pm
by richardmac
Thanks, Nakia, I will definitely have a look!
Re: Native-looking settings on iOS
Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2014 7:48 am
by MarcVanCauwenberghe
Hi FireWorx,
It was announced on the list.
Read more about it here:
http://tmtools.tactilemedia.com/tmcontrol2/
Best regards,
Marc
Re: Native-looking settings on iOS
Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2014 7:49 am
by MarcVanCauwenberghe
Re: Native-looking settings on iOS
Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2014 2:15 pm
by richardmac
tmControl2 looks good also. I bought Monte's external for settings and it's exactly what I needed for this problem. But I'll probably go ahead and pick up tmControl2 this afternoon. Are the graphics optimized for retina?
Re: Native-looking settings on iOS
Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2014 2:20 pm
by bn
Hi Richard,
Scott writes on his webpage the the controls are made of graphics and as such resolution independent for different screen resolutions.
Kind regards
Bernd
Re: Native-looking settings on iOS
Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 3:50 pm
by Mikey
In tmc2 icons are supported both as images and as glyph fonts. Depending on how you want/need things to resize, sometimes one will be better than the other.
MergSettings is nice for just a control-panel type of sheet. tmc2 is great for harder/more general-purpose layouts. Right now it supports two ios7 skins - a base one, and LAZR2, which is a sweet, dark skin. While it is dark like the original LAZR, it is different enough that it is really a whole new skin. I believe Scott is going to redo some of the other skins for tmc2 as well.
MG is your other option, and while I would say it is not as slick as tmc2, and it only has a basic android and a basic ios7 skin at this time, it still seems pretty good, although in MG2, you lose the screen orientation goodies from the original.