Scale or zoom on stack for visibility
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 3:14 pm
Hi All,
It's been rumoured about the release of the iPad3 and it looks likely they will be adding retina support for it. This posses a problem for most of use that will be developing for it. I already have a problem when developing for the standard iPad on my Macbook. The dimensions for the iPad retina display will be 2048×1536!! The largest my displays go to at the moment is 1920 x 1200. My MacBook pro can show my iPad apps ok but it does mean a lot of inspector/script/dictionary/appBrowser window shuffling.
What I propose is a feature that allows you to do a 50% and 25% scale down of the stack display. This will give us simulated displays of 1024x768 and 512x384 for both iPad types. This benefit could also cross over to development for all other platforms.
If additionally there were support for scaling up to 150% and 200% (and scrollable) it would make it easier to place objects far more accurately in the stack display.
I understand that this would likely add an overhead to the overall performance in the stack simulator but the benefits would far outweigh the drawbacks in development.
All the best
Pi
It's been rumoured about the release of the iPad3 and it looks likely they will be adding retina support for it. This posses a problem for most of use that will be developing for it. I already have a problem when developing for the standard iPad on my Macbook. The dimensions for the iPad retina display will be 2048×1536!! The largest my displays go to at the moment is 1920 x 1200. My MacBook pro can show my iPad apps ok but it does mean a lot of inspector/script/dictionary/appBrowser window shuffling.
What I propose is a feature that allows you to do a 50% and 25% scale down of the stack display. This will give us simulated displays of 1024x768 and 512x384 for both iPad types. This benefit could also cross over to development for all other platforms.
If additionally there were support for scaling up to 150% and 200% (and scrollable) it would make it easier to place objects far more accurately in the stack display.
I understand that this would likely add an overhead to the overall performance in the stack simulator but the benefits would far outweigh the drawbacks in development.
All the best
Pi