How to highlight a TabBar Button manually?

[DevBoyLars]

Hi there,
how can I manually set, which of my TabBar-Buttons should be highlighted (font set to white) at runtime? It seems, that mobGUI wan't correctly do this automatically -.-

[Simon]

Hi Lars,
I thought you were going to drop mobGui?
It's great for getting started but most of your posts keep showing it's short comings.
Building your own tabs is easy and allows you all the flexibility of any other control. Also you'll get more responses to your questions because most people answering question here don't use mobGui.
OK, it probably is possible to change the highlight state of your tabs in mobGui. I just don't know it, I do for tab buttons.

Simon

[DevBoyLars]

Yes, maybe I should drop it, but I don't know to handle the different proportion between such as iPhone 4 and iPhone 5 (if I would use an automatic resize script for that).

mobGUI is a very nice tool, which helps me a lot, but I think you're right, the next App I should build without mobGUI.

But how can I handle this problem (proportion)?

[Simon]

Here:
http://forums.runrev.com/phpBB2/viewtop ... =8&t=14859
For more advanced stuff check out the bottom of the page.

Simon

[DevBoyLars]

I know this thread, but it says explicit "This scales proportionally i.e. If you have a square object and do not scale proportionally it won't be square anymore."


And that's the problem. A square should be a square on an iPhone 5, too. Do you know, what I mean?

Or think about an iPad. It would be terribly just to scale it up and don't use the more given space on the screen.

[Simon]

Scaling just 1 object is easy.
Just take apart the code.

Simon

[Simon]

Also, when I said square I meant square not rectangle. A rectangle will fill up the new space easily.

With that code iPhone and iPhone retina are fine because retina is 2X, so a square would remain a square. For IPad you just use the same code again setting your minimum size to 1024 x 768, make sure everything looks nice and hit the button. Use "the working effective screenRect" in the "on resizeStack" with an if/then or switch case to set up for the correct device.

I'm not sure mobGui will keep a square square for iPhone and iPad.

Simon

[DevBoyLars]

Again: My problem is the different screen-dimension between such us iPhone 4 and iPhone 5 - they are not proportional.

[Simon]

Hi Lars,
Did you know that the largest square you can draw on an iPhone 4 equals the largest square you can draw on an iPhone 5? (640 X 640)
I know it's crazy!
So you will have dead space on an iPhone 5 no matter how you size it.
Are you really talking about a square?

Simon

[DevBoyLars]

I'm talking about the free space vertical on iPhone 5 (compared to iPhone 4).

[Simon]

If it's a square then nothing will fill it. Or your tabs (and other controls) will become long and narrow.
How does mobGui handle it?

[DevBoyLars]

In mobGUI you just select the device, like iPhone 4, set everything to the right place, select iPhone 5 and set the changes you want on your screen (such as to use the "more" space). That's it

It is really great, but it needs an update. iPad retina is missing and all Android-Devices have to set up manually. Every time you change something. That's bad. It needs a drop-down for every screen-resulution.

[Simon]

Ah, you set every resolution manually.
You should still give the script a try (not with the mobGui scripts in place) just to see what it does. If you have a text field that fills the bottom of the screen it will automatically resize to fit available screen space.

Maybe I'll write a script that allows manual setting of resolutions, but I'll never get "all" the Android resolutions. Way too many of them and more each day.

There is that splash21 way of doing it, thought it was very clever, using a "letterbox".

[DevBoyLars]

Yes, you can try mobGUI for free on the website:

http://mobgui.com/download.php

I tried the script, but there are some missing things, which mobGUI can do: Such as plattform-spacific controls, etc.