Android Question A query on Autoscale?

[Roger Daley]

Hi,

I am newer than new with B4A and still working my way through the Beginners Guide with the Trial download. I am working with the SecondProgram example, tweaking it to try out things. I have reached the stage of trying to fit it to real devices and need to Autoscale. I have read everything I can find, Beginners guide, Designer Scripts & AutoScale Tutorial and lots of other Q&A in the forum. Some documentation describes Designer Scripts for the designer, some describes using the main code area. Example code assumes the reader knows what the code is doing.

Can anyone give me a "step by step" explanation [please assume that I am really dumb] of how to acheive this, for example in the SecondProgram code.


Thanks in advance
Roger

 

[Erel]

In most cases it is easier to build the layout with the designer. AutoScale code module should be used when you need to build the layout dynamically.

Start with the default variant. Make sure to set the anchors correctly and only use the designer script for things not possible with anchors.

 

[Roger Daley]

Thanks Erel.

I think epiphany is the correct word. 24Hrs later I have re-read the relevant part of the Beginners Guide for the umpteenth time and finally it became clear. All is good.

Roger