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I'm very new to deploying iOS Apps using LiveCode. I've got it all set up at present, but the one mystery I have yet to find a solution for in these forums or anywhere else relates to text fields. I have a text field on the only card in the stack. The text fits perfectly well in that field. I used American Typewriter as the font, since that's an iOS-supported font. However, when I deploy the app to my iPhone and open it on the iPhone, the text in the field is cut off/truncated.

In the preOpenStack handler, I put:

set the fullScreenMode of this stack to "exactFit"

I can't figure out why the text fits on the stack in LiveCode, but is cut off on iOS. Does anyone knows how to resolve this?

Thanks!

I may have just solved my own problem. I thought maybe the default font size of 13 might somehow not work on iOS, so I changed the font size of the problematic text field to be 14. I then re-deployed the app to iOS and it appeared properly this time! I then changed the font size back to 13, redeployed again, and it still worked fine. Maybe the default properties for a text field somehow don't work right when deployed to iOS, but if you manually change those properties, then all is good? A bit of a mystery. (I'm using LiveCode 8.1.3, by the way, since that's the most recent stable version and I'm using it with the students in my Intro to Computer Science class).

Hi dvermes,

glad you could solve this issue!
If you can reproduce this, please consider to create a bug report here:
http://quality.runrev.com

Thank you!


Best

Klaus