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Mackimack
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02/10/11 05:07 AM (15 years ago)

Menu - Buttons V1.5

If I go into the Advanced Menu Properties and to change the Button Size Large Device Why can not I get rectangular button? Type 100x250.
 
David @ buzztouch
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02/10/11 09:50 AM (15 years ago)
I'm confused by this question. If you set the Button Size Large Device, you're setting the size of the buttons when ran on the iPad, Small Device is iPhone, iPod - you probably already knew this. The 100 x 250 confuses me. There is only one 'size' to enter. The number you enter will be a square. There isn't anyway to enter two numbers to create a rectangle. This is because the layout needs to be balanced (left, right, top, bottom, etc) and rectangle would change this. So... if you want rectangles, you could do a few different things. If you want a vertical strip of rectangles, you could make the button size large enough to accomodate the width then use button images that would go into the square you created. The images would be the rectangle. Depending ont the size of the buttons, this wouldn't look very nice with a bunch of space under or above each button? Another idea... use a menu list instead of a button menu. Use your images as icons and set the row-height accordingly and set no text. This would produce a button with no text. Not sure how this could come out. a) Experiement with sizes or b) Use square buttons with or without rounded corners ;-)
 
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03/10/11 04:13 PM (14 years ago)
Attempting to get a menu of a vertical strip of rectangles, I tried to use a menu list and use images as icons and set the row-height accordingly and set no text. When I tried it I couldn't save the screen without some text for the row description so I put in a period. The URL I entered for the icon didn't show up so I added the image to BT_Images and recompiled. I also changed the indicator type to none. To center the image I set the width of the row to 320. It worked!...The magic of buzztouch! Thanks.
 
David @ buzztouch
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03/11/11 02:42 AM (14 years ago)
Cool. Not sure why the image URL didn't work - do you have it for 'small device' and 'large device' ? Hmm... Good stuff otherwise. Also, if your secret period, single dot, is showing in the description, you could always set the font color to mathc the row color ;-)
 

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