B4J Question How to use B4XDrawer?

DonManfred

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• May 27, 2020

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I don´t think that you can use it in B4J. The drawer is a Android Feature.

 

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Chris Guanzon

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• May 27, 2020

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Thank you DonManfred, is there any library same as B4XDrawer for B4J?

 

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udg

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• May 27, 2020

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Months ago I designed something similar to B4xDrawer for B4J, but never finalized it. So it was not published.
The basic idea is really simple: two panels, where left (or menu) panel slides in/out covering part of main panel which gets covered by a partially transparent third panel so to intercepts clicks on areas not covered by the menu panel.

 

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Erel

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• May 27, 2020

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The complicated stuff in B4XDrawer (which is a B4A / B4i library) is to handle the gesture. This is less relevant on the desktop.
Implementing a drawer without a gesture should be simple. Just create a panel and slide it with B4XView.SetLayoutAnimated.

 

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Chris Guanzon

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• May 27, 2020

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Erel said:

The complicated stuff in B4XDrawer (which is a B4A / B4i library) is to handle the gesture. This is less relevant on the desktop.
Implementing a drawer without a gesture should be simple. Just create a panel and slide it with B4XView.SetLayoutAnimated.

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The reason why is because i want to use a touchscreen monitor for my app using windows/linux os. Anyway, I already use B4XView.SetLayoutAnimated, but pane doesn't have elevation property like panel in b4a.

 

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Erel

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• May 27, 2020

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Chris Guanzon said:

but pane doesn't have elevation property like panel in b4a.

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This is not important. Just call BringToFront.

 

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Chris Guanzon

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• May 27, 2020

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I just like the shadow in panel when you add elevation. Anyway, i will stick to b4xview.setlayoutanimated for now. I wish elevation will be added in Pane in the next update to add more beauty to User Interface. Thanks a lot for the answer.

 

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Erel

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• May 27, 2020

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You can add shadows with the visual designer.

 

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Chris Guanzon

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• May 27, 2020

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But the shadow is Inner Shadow only, no Drop shadow like label and textfield.

 

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