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Hi Guys!

I have searched the forums for scaling objects to fit different screen sizes (Phone Size to Tablet Size) and all the posts are 5+ years old. Is it possible that LiveCode 9 has now included a feature/s that could assist with the issues I'm facing?

Many Thanks,

Googie.

Are you sure scaling is what you want?

If making one layout that expands or shrinks for everything from 4" to 13" will do what you need, the fullscreenMode property makes that easy.

But few apps do that. Most reposition controls to make optimal use of such a wide range of display sizes.

In the web world this is generically called "responsive design", with metrics often broken into categories by device width.

On both mobile and desktop, LC provides a resizestack message you can handle for positioning objects. Positioning properties include rect, loc, left, top, right, bottom, width, height, etc.

There have been a few discussions comparing scaling with positioning in recent months - here's one:

http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=30609