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08/19/13 03:51 PM (12 years ago)

BTA Design Menu: button text truncated when moved to landscape mode

I'm testing my app on devices and have noticed that the button text on my BTA Design Menu pages gets cut off when I'm looking at the app in landscape mode. The column width for the text appears to become very narrow so I only see a fraction of the words intended for the space. I understand that the BTA Design Menu is not configured for landscape mode, so the short answer may be to not allow devices to rotate. Anyone encountered this out there?
 
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08/19/13 06:49 PM (12 years ago)
Actually, you cannot turn off rotation for ipads at the control panel, so my original question remains: the button text on the lists tends to become very narrow without explanation when i rotate to landscape mode.
 
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08/19/13 07:10 PM (12 years ago)
Actually, you cannot turn off rotation for ipads at the control panel, so my original question remains: the button text on the lists tends to become very narrow without explanation when i rotate to landscape mode.
 
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08/19/13 07:59 PM (12 years ago)
I think the readme says the plugin is only for iPhones, not iPads. But you could probably mod the code to get the desired effect.
 
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08/19/13 09:30 PM (12 years ago)
It looks really nice on the iPad and iPad mini screens except for the cutting off of the list/button text that seems to occur when i rotate it into landscape mode.
 
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08/19/13 09:57 PM (12 years ago)
You could also always disable rotation on iPads.
 
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08/20/13 06:47 AM (12 years ago)
Regarding disabling rotation on iPads: - i've got video on some of my pages, and i think those are required to rotate into landscape mode. Selectively disabling rotation on select pages appears to be possible (i've seen all of the threads), although based on the threads i've read looks complicated.
 
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08/20/13 06:56 AM (12 years ago)
Disabling rotations on a particular screen is easy. Forcing a particular orientation is a bit harder. The issue is in landscape mode before loading that screen - don't want to lock them into a bad orientation. When I get a chance, I'll post some code for you.
 
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08/20/13 10:14 AM (12 years ago)
Thanks Chris. That would be much appreciated.
 

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