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Susan Metoxen
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05/25/14 06:08 PM (10 years ago)

New Plugin: Menu Image Rows

I just uploaded a new plugin to the market. It is very similar to the Menu with Image, but each row is an image. This plugin is based on a vision of Joe Sprott, who used it in an app called EMX Sensors. It is also the home screen for the Maine EMS app (Android only). https://www.buzztouch.com/plugins/plugin.php?pid=A7B806CA0D771CA234BCB15 A special thank you to Kittsy for helping me with it the iOS rotation and row layout. Like the Menu with Image, the plugin uses the code of David Book as a starting point. Because each row is an image, you have more artistic flexibility in designing your rows. The image is centered in the row on rotation. For Android tablets, there is an extra folder in the plugin that you should drag into your project called, "layout-sw600dp". This folder contains the tablet layouts. The plugin will work without it, but your app will look better if you use the additional folder.
 
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05/25/14 06:11 PM (10 years ago)
Superb stuff. Menu with image is still my go to start point. Thanks Susan! Nobody works like you. Happy days and happy memorial weekend. Dual format loveliness!
 
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05/25/14 06:32 PM (10 years ago)
looks cool!I want to try it out
 
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05/25/14 07:51 PM (10 years ago)
Sweet! I like this one! :) Cheers! -- Smug
 
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05/25/14 09:22 PM (10 years ago)
Good stuff! Nice job, Susan! And I agree with Keith...Menu with Image finds itself into pretty much every app I make! Happy Memorial Day! Mark
 
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05/26/14 12:51 AM (10 years ago)
Thanks Susan nice one and fair way to go...
 
Susan Metoxen
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05/26/14 07:29 AM (10 years ago)
Thank you so much, everyone! I was great to see some sales overnight. This community is so awesome. I was on the btmods.com/chat a few nights ago, complaining about having to make screenshots. And @CakeBit volunteered to make some for me! He has excellent design skills. Here are his images: https://www.dropbox.com/s/g246g20eyhocghf/screen-1.png I should add that the btmods.com/chat is something that @MrDavid made for all of us, as a gift to the community. This community is amazing. I know we sometimes have our sibling quarrels, but overall this is a very supportive community and I appreciate you all so much. Thanks for the screenshots, @Cakebit! These will really help users have a better vision of what they can do with the plugin.
 
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05/26/14 08:18 AM (10 years ago)
Hi Susan Really like the look that you can create with the new plugin! I hope that you have more energy to develop so ... Is it possible to create a similar plugin where you have text between menus and everything in a way floating with the text? I will anyway download this at once. Thanks!
 
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05/26/14 08:22 AM (10 years ago)
I am not sure what you mean. You could put text on an image to get that look with this plugin. Do you have a mockup of what you want?
 
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05/26/14 12:33 PM (10 years ago)
The idea was if you could have a "larger" block of text around the menu items? The screen would in that case grow with the amount of text you put in.
 
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05/26/14 01:44 PM (10 years ago)
Do you mean that the row would resize based on how much text you put into the row?
 
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05/26/14 01:52 PM (10 years ago)
Hi Susan, I really like the look of this plugin, thanks for putting it together. The fact that it works for android and iOS is a massive bonus too. I've downloaded it and am trying it out now. My first attempt led to this message: "The import com.testingmenuwithimage cannot be resolved" It's in the WB_rowimageMenu.java file. It could be that I've missed something really obvious but any help you could offer would be great. Thanks James
 
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05/26/14 02:33 PM (10 years ago)
Yes, something like that
 
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05/26/14 07:16 PM (10 years ago)
Sorry about that. I missed one of the places to change the naming to the generic BT names. It needs to be com.[your project name] instead of the project name I was using for testing. I will try to get that fixed tonight and uploaded.
 
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06/10/14 05:43 AM (10 years ago)
Does this work well with landscape as well?
 
Susan Metoxen
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06/10/14 07:11 AM (10 years ago)
In landscape, the row images are centered, but do not stretch to fill the screen. They behave like the header image.
 
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06/11/14 11:57 AM (10 years ago)
I'm experiencing 2 problems with this plugin, but i'm not sure it is related to it, let me know. 1: i don't know if you missed out the "Document Behavior options" in your plug in or it was meant to be, well i now have the refresh button showing in the bottom bar on android and i cannot get rid of it because i don't have the option, show the button, do not show, for the Browser Refresh Button( i don't know how it came to show up ) 2. the top navigation bar, 2.1 the icon is the same as the app icon, is it possible to change it, different in every screen? because the main screen is fine with the app icon, but others i would like to change it to a back icon. 2.2 the link on the same icon, it always points to the home screen, Main screen, even if i'm 2 level down in categories, is it possible to make it become a simple back button, so that it will go back one level and not go home?
 
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06/11/14 03:00 PM (10 years ago)
I am not sure what is the cause of the problem in number 1--I haven't run into that. There shouldn't be an option to show a refresh button. Number 2 is just how Buzztouch Android apps work. It could be changed with custom code, but not within the context of a plugin.
 
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06/11/14 03:22 PM (10 years ago)
ok for the number 1 I fixed it, the problem was that the home screen had the : Screen Data URL connected to the control panel, i removed the url and the bar disappeared. for the second problem could you point me to where is that code, so i can try playing with it. Thanks
 

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