Android Question Font size adjusts in Emulator but not on Tablet (solved)

[Colin Evans]

Hi, hopefully, someone can explain why this is happening, when I run my application on the emulator through AVD Manager the fonts use on the calculator bit of the app auto adjust but when I run it on the tablet they don't. I can alter the size in the designer but they are too small on the tablet to be useful

I'd love to find a way that all of the fields used would fill the space, whether they be Buttons, Labels, or text, is this possible?
Attached are the screenshots, one from the emulator and one from the 11" tablet

 

[Erel]

Make sure NOT to use dip units with font sizes.

Are you calling AutoScaleAll? It can help a bit with the font size.

 

[Colin Evans]

Hi Erel, yes autoScale is in the script and the original font size is set in the designer, I've installed it on my phone (screenshot ) and it seems okay but on the tablet it only shows the top half of the numbers

 

[Colin Evans]

I changed show title to off and full screen on and it made a little difference but works okay on the emulator and mobile but not tablet
The emulator is set to 10", phone is 6" and tablet is 11"

 

[Shelby]

Padding in designer?

 

[Colin Evans]

Padding in designer?

Not sure what you mean!

 

[Shelby]

Not sure what you mean!

In the designer (of the ide), if you click on a displayed element, one of the list elements in properties is padding. Clicking on that gives a potential to change. Padding is the space around an element. Perhaps if you change the top padding, the print will show completely.

 

[Colin Evans]

Shelby many thanks, I changed the padding on all of the calculator buttons to -5,0,0,0 and it works perfectly on all devices, weird I've never had that on my other apps

Thanks again

 

[Shelby]

Great, I'm often concerned that I'll sound stupid here but it seemed possible that the designer would be the key to your dilemma.

 

[Colin Evans]

Great, I'm often concerned that I'll sound stupid here but it seemed possible that the designer would be the key to your dilemma.

I think like you I'm afraid to ask certain questions or answer some because the forum content seems to be mainly aimed at serious programming and developers alike, I'm only programming for myself mainly to keep the old grey matter alive and some of the content, well most of the content is well out of my reach.
I'm just glad that there are good-minded people on the forum, who give their advice to novices like me, thanks again

 

[Shelby]

the forum content seems to be mainly aimed at serious programming and developers alike,

Funny, you've been here for two and a half years longer than I and you are a novice. Here a novice can help a novice. What a great place. By the way, I'm impressed that you edited the title of the thread to show you found a solution. My webmaster experience made me think of the padding idea.

 

[Colin Evans]

Funny, you've been here for two and a half years longer than I and you are a novice. Here a novice can help a novice. What a great place. By the way, I'm impressed that you edited the title of the thread to show you found a solution.

I think I'm somewhat older than most on the forum, whilst I used to program at a high level it was in MUMPS, a brilliant and powerful language but that was twenty years ago, so I looked at VB6 and played with that creating interfaces to other systems for clients, that ended when I retired and started having a go at B4A, B4J, I've created loads of useful applications for myself, and because you tend to forget things as you get older I rely on the forum, and it's one of the best communities there is., long may it continue ?