Grey blank screen in android standalone

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Grey blank screen in android standalone

Post by aidas.praBUSe9AZ » Wed Jul 30, 2014 12:23 pm

hi,

I recently returned to the joyful fields of livecode to make simple app for my beloved one and find myself encountering a problem I cannot solve.

Problem is, even though I`ve tested it on actual Android devices and virtual testing and both options had newer OS versions than 2.2, Im still having a grey/blank screen.

Just can`t simply put my head around this, because it is basic app with multiple links to various cards, no coding error could be doing that ( I would attach the stack file, but it is not allowed ). In the distant past I`ve done several apps with livecode that used same basic structure, so I have no idea what I missed this time. Since it is for one person (which is using a Sony Xperia), I avoided the nightmarish journey to make it screen size-optimal for multiple android screens and all images are fixed size.


Please, help. For the sake of love :oops:

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Re: Grey blank screen in android standalone

Post by Simon » Wed Jul 30, 2014 5:20 pm

HI aidas.praBUSe9AZ,
Welcome to the forum :)

Such a plea deserves great attention, bordering on madness :)
Have you made a "Hello World" test on a device yet?

Don't worry about screen size issues as this is a thing of the past with the current liveCode

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Re: Grey blank screen in android standalone

Post by aidas.praBUSe9AZ » Wed Jul 30, 2014 9:56 pm

hey Simon,

I did. Several times. The problem was with the images - I imported them as controls from the menu, and it started working like a charm. Super-ashamed now but what can I say - it must be madness.

Simon, I need to confess something - earlier, when I said "it started working like a charm" - I lied :( The image size was cropped:
stack_shot.jpg
screenshot from the stack
10568825_674981055931959_2942353608656666000_n.jpg
screenshot from the actual phone

So screen size issues still haunts me. Could you give some advice or send me some links where it might be explained how to deal with this ?

Thanks, Simon

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Re: Grey blank screen in android standalone

Post by Simon » Wed Jul 30, 2014 10:05 pm

Ahhh, which version of liveCode are you using?
and...
Did you know that there is an HTML5 crowdsourcing drive going on now?
http://livecode.com/livecode-to-html5/

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Re: Grey blank screen in android standalone

Post by newtronsols » Thu Jul 31, 2014 12:15 am

I spent a week with this issue - does drive you mad - turned out for me that it was an LC 6.7 dp5 issue [other?]. Go back to dp4 and I bet your problem goes away.

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Re: Grey blank screen in android standalone

Post by aidas.praBUSe9AZ » Thu Jul 31, 2014 2:31 pm

Did you know that there is an HTML5 crowdsourcing drive going on now?
...but of course, bright orange banner is hard to ignore these days!
Go back to dp4 and I bet your problem goes away.
thanks newtronsols, but even in dp4 it stays the same. Haven`t tried it in 7.0, though

EDIT:

It DID work on dp4! It had typing error on preOpenStack script. Ashamed again. Thanks guys again, really appreciated. Virtual beers to everyone

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