How to Hide the 3 Dot Settings Button

[Wolfbyte]

Hi All,

I'm working on an Android game and having difficulty finding out how (if possible) to remove the 3 dot settings button from the standard android menu.
Also how to make a true full screen app/game. I have been using the "fullscreenmode" but it still leaves the default Android button etc visible.

Any help would be much appreciated.

[Simon]

Hi Wolfbyte,
Do you mean the 3 dash button?
For me it's a hardware button next to the Home button and cannot be removed.
Which device are you using?

Simon

[Wolfbyte]

Hi Simon,

I'm mainly using a HTC one M7. it has hardware buttons for the back and home keys. But any app created in Livecode seems to have the 3 dash button appear above them in either portrait or landscape which take away a-lot of the screen real estate and doesn't look very professional.
From testing it appears it be only an issue with phones of tablets that have physical buttons for the android menu.

If it has software buttons for the home and back keys the 3 dash button appears inline with them so not an issue.
So is there a way to disable the 3 dash button when hardware buttons are present??

[Simon]

Hi Wolfbyte,
Are you saying that if you make just a blank stack and test it on your device you automatically get the 3 dash?
I've never seen this on my Galaxy.

How about a screen shot.

Simon

[Wolfbyte]

Hi Simon,

Here you go. This is a completely new stack with the status bar hidden in settings.

blank stack

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[Simon]

I never have that.

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Using this stack;

BlankTest.zip

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Does that stack do it on your device?

Simon

[Wolfbyte]

HI Simon,
Yeah same issue.

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[Simon]

Hi Wolfbyte,
I wonder if it's an HTC (Sense) thing? But then I guess all your (non-livecode) apps would show it.
Have you managed to get the emulator working, you can try it on that.

Just to reiterate, the screenshot I posted is exactly all I see.

Simon

[Wolfbyte]

Hi Simon,

Thanks for getting back to me. I'll try and dispute sense and see if that fixes the issue.

[jekyllandhyde]

I'm getting the three dot settings button show up on a LG Nexus 5 (fourth button to the right next to app switching button). I would like to figure out how to turn it off. Most other installed Apps don't light up this button. If you find a solution please post.

[MaxV]

On my Hauwei P6 I have no bottom status bar selecting status bar hidden in standalone application settings.
Wolfbyte result is very strange.

[MaxV]

I'm getting the three dot settings button show up on a LG Nexus 5 (fourth button to the right next to app switching button). I would like to figure out how to turn it off. Most other installed Apps don't light up this button. If you find a solution please post.

Regarding having 4 buttons in the bottom status bar, that's is the normal behaviour. You can change it selecting hidden status bar in the standalone application settings and creating your personal bottom status bar.

[jekyllandhyde]

Actually, having three buttons in the bottom status bar seems to be normal behaviour (on the LG Nexus 5) when using all sorts of Apps created by Google and others. One of our mobile developers (who doesn't code livecode but owns the LG Android phone) mentioned he had never seen the fourth 3 dot settings button implemented before. So to clarify, I am wondering how you turn off that button only?

[jacque]

My Nexus 7 shows either 3 or 4 icons in the bottom bar, depending on the app. Some apps have the menu button but it is inactive, other apps have it and use it to display a menu. Some apps just hide it if there are no menu options. So I think it varies by app, but I don't believe there is a way to control each button individually in LC.

The odd part is that if the bottom bar is hidden, this particular device still shows the default menu button. That sounds like a manufacturer's decision.