getLogicalWidth() and getLogicalHeight()

moopf

Hi,

I've seen elsewhere (I think it was @atilim) say that, even if you're designing for landscape, you should still enter the logical dimensions in portrait in your project settings, e.g. 320 x 480 instead of 480 x 320. However, I've just been scratching my head on getLogicalWidth and getLogicalHeight as, even in landscape, these still seem to work based on portrait. Is that correct? It's a little odd - in order to center something horizontally in landscape I have to use getLogicalHeight rather than getLogicalWidth which is what I'd expect. With this in mind as well, are there other places where I'll find this kind of disconnect between orientation and width and height?

Cheers,

Gareth

ar2rsawseen

You should use application:getContentWidth and application:getContentHeight, as they provide dimension based on orientation.

Here are the differences described:
http://appcodingeasy.com/Gideros-Mobile/Difference-between-content-logical-and-device-dimensions-in-Gideros-Mobile

moopf

Ah, many thanks. I haven't seen them mentioned anywhere! In fact, there's a lot that doesn't seem to be in the API documentation at the moment - it's bit like flying blind Its frustrating, but I'll trudge on

ar2rsawseen

Well it depends on your Gideros version. Since those last beta's weren't oficial, they weren't published anywhere nor the docs.
It should change with next 2012.2 stable release, atleast till next betas.

moopf

Thanks, it makes sense but is there anywhere I can find a collated list of all new API calls for the betas? Is there a temporary list that's updated in a central place or is it just a case of poking around?

atilim

Hi,

You can use the local documentation that comes with the installation: {Gideros Installation Directory}/Documentation/reference_manual.html The documentation on the web reflects beta3.

@ar2rsawseen fortunately, there won't be any betas after 2012.2

MikeHart

Always use local documetation.

moopf

Aha, thank you. Didn't realise that the local documentation was different. That's great, should have checked that earlier!

ar2rsawseen

@ar2rsawseen fortunately, there won't be any betas after 2012.2

So you say

Always use local documetation.

Totally agree, Learned that hardway