Newbie - Long screens - lots of controls

[Shane119]

Hi everyone

Before I start I appologies for my terminology - I'm a windows developer (using VB6 and Access) - sorry - but I have to make a living some-how lol.

I need some help (even before I start my first app). I'm writing/designing an application to capture information about water conditions in tanks, etc and I've spotted a problem before I start. I have no idea how to fit all the input controlls on 1 screen. Basically I have about 20 controls I need on 1 screen, made up of dates, tick boxes, dropdowns and text fields. I can create a screen - but they dont all fit - I need about 3 or 4 times the space. Is it possible to create some scrollview with different controls? or is there a library that has already been written to do this?

Thank you inadvance for any help you can give

Shane Brennan

 

[nfordbscndrd]

Below is a screen shot of a drop-down options box from an app I'm working on. As you can see, it has 17 inputs, including 2 text edit boxes and 3 drop-down lists, and room for more and takes less than 2/3rds of the screen . Unless you have a lot of large text edit boxes, it's hard to see why it wouldn't fit. Maybe you could provide a screen shot.

 

[klaus]

You can create a layout file with a Panel with the height you need for all your views (controls).
Add this panel on a ScrollView.

Attached a small demonstrator.

Best regards.

EDIT: Changed the ScrollViewPanel.Height to 800dip

 

[Shane119]

Hi nfordbscndrd

Yes there are lots of comments to be entered. Mostly "Is X attached" or "Is this regularly cleaned" - then a load of text to say why there is a problem... Sorry I would provide a screen shot but... not created it yet lol (sorry)

 

[Shane119]

Thanks Klaus - I'll give this a try now

 

[Shane119]

WOW! thanks very much Klaus this is exactly what I needed. You are a star!

Thank you also nfordbscndrd for your quick response to my post

I appreciate the help from you both - hopefully I can repay you or another user later once I learn this, what looks to be, a very powerful and potentially excellent piece of software.

Yours

Shane Brennan

 

[Gary Miyakawa]

Klaus,

What a GREAT demo! I have built a test project and it's working.... sort of....

I defined the Panel at 300 x 1166 in size. I specified 1166 in the scvMain.Initialize command and using the emulator (defined as HVGA size) it works fine and I can scroll the whole image, but when I then loaded it on my AT&T Atrix (using the B4A Bridge) it would only scroll 2/3rd of the image...

I expanded the scvMain.initialize to 1800 and it was just about right.

So all is working, but I'm trying to understand why I had to do this ?

Thanks again for some GREAT examples!

Gary M

 

[Inman]

Motorola Atrix 4G has a screen resolution of 540x960 while HVGA is only 320x480. That could be the issue.

Anyway a better practice would be to set the panel height based on the bitmap height, during run time itself, instead of presetting.

 

[Gary Miyakawa]

Thanks for the response!

I only have 1 Image (I'm building a IR remote control replacement app) so the size is always the same... Just the screens on the Android devices will change (so I have to adjust for that)...

Still trying to get the Math right and understand why I'm having to do it...

Thanks again !

Gary M

 

[Inman]

Aren't you using dip for the units? As in setting height as 1166dip instead of 1166? Normally that itself takes care of changing resolutions.

 

[klaus]

I confirm, you must use 1166dip.

I have updated the demonstrator in post #3.

Best regards.

 

[Gary Miyakawa]

Bingo! That straightened the scrolling out!

Thanks!

Gary M