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Re: Native scroller blues

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UIWebview??? I'm going to try this! One huge advantage is to be able to display html with formatting and images.
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Re: Native scroller blues

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adventuresofgreg wrote:UIWebview??? I'm going to try this! One huge advantage is to be able to display html with formatting and images.
http://forums.runrev.com/viewtopic.php? ... 043#p38382
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Re: Native scroller blues

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Without being too mean here, doesn't this seem like a completely unacceptable solution? If we have to use a webview as a hack to get scrolling speeds vaguely acceptable, remind me why we're even using LiveCode? A shell webkit app in cocoa seems to do the trick for free.

I guess I'm frustrated with the state of LiveCode iOS still. I'm glad Apple has re-allowed third party development environments, but I understand what Steve Jobs was saying about sub-optimal experiences. We've had well over a year, and we still don't have a fluid scroller, something almost every app has. This just seems unacceptable. I mean no offense to the folks at RunRev, I know this isn't easy, it's crazy that I spent the last 3 weeks learning enough Cocoa to make some simple apps that perform and feel vastly better than the app I've been trying to hack around limitations for in the last 3 months.

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Re: Native scroller blues

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landoke wrote:Without being too mean here, doesn't this seem like a completely unacceptable solution?
You are not being mean at all - I completely agree.
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Re: Native scroller blues

Post by teacherguy »

Jellicle I was able to make a decent scrolling datagrid by grouping a simple rectangle with it first, and locking the size and location to the rectangle dimensions, the datagrid height being much taller. I couldn't tell if that was how you achieved this effect, or if you used a field? Does it matter?

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My solution avoids the use if a data grid - it uses HTML and a browser object.

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I see. I download some example stacks that used datagrids, they were from you, no?
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teacherguy wrote:I see. I download some example stacks that used datagrids, they were from you, no?
Nope.

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Re: Native scroller blues

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Hi All,

1)Does anybody have an update regarding an appropriate way of having a real smooth scrolling field?
I stopped my project on iPad due to that (Scrolling 20 label of 400x100 on a scrolling field still choppy).

2)Who knows if the guys at Runrev are working on adding/fixing proper Native UI?

If anybody has a stack with smooth scrolling i will really appreciate. (i tried to access the example of Jellicle with no joy)

Thx to all for your support. :wink:
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Re: Native scroller blues

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Have you tried the new acceleratedRendering? That helps a lot in making scrolling fields smooth.
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Re: Native scroller blues

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Thank You Very Much Jacque!!!!!

That was it!!! Now the scrolling is perfect!! :D
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