Reply
Thread Tools
daperl's Avatar
Posts: 2,427 | Thanked: 2,986 times | Joined on Dec 2007
#121
Theirs no good reason you can't have it "your way." Here's my first attempt at a portrait mode conversation UI. I had to rework a bunch of stuff from my landscape version, but all for the better. Going back and forth from landscape to portrait isn't trivial, but with list-type apps, it's not unreasonable. Next, I'm gonna try to throw up a working half-screen keyboard; I should have something to show over the next few days.

As I've mentioned elsewhere, I'm just messin' around, but I think the point is clear.

Name:  Screenshot-20100329-072531.jpg
Views: 436
Size:  25.5 KB
__________________
N9: Go white or go home
 

The Following 11 Users Say Thank You to daperl For This Useful Post:
Posts: 11 | Thanked: 3 times | Joined on Mar 2010
#122
Originally Posted by daperl View Post
Theirs no good reason you can't have it "your way." Here's my first attempt at a portrait mode conversation UI. I had to rework a bunch of stuff from my landscape version, but all for the better. Going back and forth from landscape to portrait isn't trivial, but with list-type apps, it's not unreasonable. Next, I'm gonna try to throw up a working half-screen keyboard; I should have something to show over the next few days.

As I've mentioned elsewhere, I'm just messin' around, but I think the point is clear.

Attachment 8498
you're my new personal hero...

shame on Nokia...
 
Posts: 75 | Thanked: 9 times | Joined on Dec 2009 @ Verona, Italy
#123
Also my new personal hero!
 
daperl's Avatar
Posts: 2,427 | Thanked: 2,986 times | Joined on Dec 2007
#124
Some of you might recognize the keyboard from your fruit products. The Send button should actually be a Return button for multi-line texting, but I lifted the wrong snapshot.

Now for the more painful part: Going back and forth between landscape and portrait.

Name:  Screenshot-20100329-094006.jpg
Views: 467
Size:  26.2 KB
__________________
N9: Go white or go home
 

The Following 3 Users Say Thank You to daperl For This Useful Post:
Posts: 75 | Thanked: 9 times | Joined on Dec 2009 @ Verona, Italy
#125
Wonderfull!!! My hero again!!
 
Posts: 296 | Thanked: 47 times | Joined on Oct 2009
#126
Handwriting or a T9 board would be nice too in portrait mode...
 
andrewfblack's Avatar
Posts: 1,656 | Thanked: 1,196 times | Joined on Apr 2008 @ Alabama, USA
#127
Originally Posted by daperl View Post
Theirs no good reason you can't have it "your way." Here's my first attempt at a portrait mode conversation UI. I had to rework a bunch of stuff from my landscape version, but all for the better. Going back and forth from landscape to portrait isn't trivial, but with list-type apps, it's not unreasonable. Next, I'm gonna try to throw up a working half-screen keyboard; I should have something to show over the next few days.

As I've mentioned elsewhere, I'm just messin' around, but I think the point is clear.

Attachment 8498

Any guide on how you did this?
__________________
Home Page - Preenv Wiki

**All Posts are made as a Community Member and not as a Super Moderator of this site.
 
daperl's Avatar
Posts: 2,427 | Thanked: 2,986 times | Joined on Dec 2007
#128
Originally Posted by andrewfblack View Post
Any guide on how you did this?
The stuff I've posted here is sort of a run on sentence from my posts in the Meego: Goodbye Mozilla, hello Webkit?. I was just about to post some code over there when I ran into this thread. Until this thread, I hadn't given any thought to portrait mode. Long story short, I'm continuing to suffer from feature-creep-itous, but I plan on posting code sometime over the next few weeks. So the answer to your question is, "not currently."

I consider the hacking I'm doing no more than a tutorial extension for Maemo 5 GTK development. As I mention in the other thread, after I post code, my hope is that someone will be able to run with some of this stuff. But more importantly, my message is that I think it's silly where Nokia chooses to draw some of their proprietary lines. It hasn't taken me long to do this proof-of-concept front end work, so I still don't know if I get their point. They seem to be spread thin; the community could have supplied plenty of more integrated functionality by now if the 20% closed source was more like 3%. Please don't quote me on those numbers. Rant over.
__________________
N9: Go white or go home
 

The Following 3 Users Say Thank You to daperl For This Useful Post:
Posts: 7 | Thanked: 0 times | Joined on Jul 2006 @ Silly Clone Valley
#129
Originally Posted by IsaacDFP View Post
Do you ever feel the need to flip your laptop vertically?
I do this with my X61 all the time. Further, I rotate one of the large desktop displays when I'm working on portrait-mode content.

Not supporting display rotation is merely laziness and poor software design.
__________________
"Did it just get fatter in here?"
 
Fargus's Avatar
Posts: 1,217 | Thanked: 446 times | Joined on Oct 2009 @ Bedfordshire, UK
#130
Originally Posted by qwazix View Post
I suppose our company meaning Nokia? ...
Nope, nothing to do with Nokia, the research was to do with iPhone application development for a client system..
 
Reply

Tags
fargus vs corso85 part1, nothing to see here


 
Forum Jump


All times are GMT. The time now is 10:01.