Wish Containers

[zombee81]

I'd like to see a proper set of containers much like the ones that are in java development, as layout a UI without them is a complete pain.

Thanks

 

[Erel]

B4A uses a different approach. It is not a complete pain once you learn how to work with the designer tools: variants, anchors, autoscale and designer script.

Note that if you prefer the "java way" then you can load XML layouts with the XmlLayoutBuilder library.

 

[zombee81]

Yea, OK! It's only a pain (to me) because that's what I'm used too! But it would have been nice not needing Android Studio to develop the interfaces.

 

[Erel]

But it would have been nice not needing Android Studio to develop the interfaces

I'm pretty sure that 99% of B4A developers don't use Android Studio to develop the interface.

 

[zombee81]

I'm sure that's the case too, unfortunately, I get memory loss side effects from tablets I take, which makes learning new things very difficult, and difficulty in remembering the old things I've learnt. Are there any examples of interfaces that use skinning and centering of a number of components together?

Again, thanks for the reply.

 

[Erel]

See this tutorial as well as the beginner's guide.

You can add the elements to a panel and then set its 'center' to the center of the screen with this designer script:

Panel1.HorizontalCenter = 50%x
Panel1.VerticalCenter = 50%y

 

[zombee81]

Thanks.

So, how would you do if you wanted a button bar with four or more equally spaced buttons?

 

[Erel]

Please start a new thread for this in the questions forum.