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Title: iPad screen size
Post by: kingja on July 01, 2014, 09:03:19 AM

     I have a NT app the user will run primarily on an iPad.  Based on a bit of searching I found the following recommended "safari safe" sizes:  Portrait: 750x920,  Landscape: 1010x660. 
     Any one have experience here?  What would you recommend me to set my NT app screen sizes to?  In addition, is it possible to dynamically change from portrait to landscape mode?  In my limited experience, if the NT screen fits nicely in landscape, when switched to portrait there will be "white-space" at the bottom.

Thanks,

Jeff

Title: Re: iPad screen size
Post by: terryd on July 01, 2014, 09:11:22 AM

I wouldn't set it at all. From my experience it acts just like any other browser.

Title: Re: iPad screen size
Post by: kingja on July 01, 2014, 06:01:27 PM

Terry,

Thanks for the input.  The app I'm working on is for one of my Plastic Surgeons.  He just verified that he will be working in landscape mode.  The current app works very well this way so little needs to be done.  However, one tab on one page has 11 fields displayed and this pushes the Save and Cancel buttons down almost out of view.  It is simple to drag the screen up a bit to expose the buttons so this may not be a big deal.

By the way, if you wish to look at the app it is at https://plastics.breasthealthcrisp.org.  Use "Demo" as the user and password.  Select any test patient then select Breast Exam on the Patient Menu.  Go to page 2 here and you will see the 11 fields I mentioned above.  I plan on removing all in-line buttons as these don't work too well when users are in "mobile" mode on the iPad.

One issue I have at the moment is also on page 2 from above.  The spinner controls that overlay the image always call the on-screen keyboard.  Is there a way to stop this?  In addition, the spinner controls are hard to access with a finger...maybe the user will require a stylus to use this form effectively.  Any thoughts on this?

Thanks,

Jeff

Title: Re: iPad screen size
Post by: terryd on July 01, 2014, 11:38:58 PM

Hi Jeff
I see what you mean about page 2. It would only need a very small reduction of the space between each field to display the save cancel buttons though.
I don't know of any way to override the Safari browsers calling the keyboard. You'll need to speak to a guru I'm afraid.

Title: Re: iPad screen size
Post by: Bruce on July 02, 2014, 12:46:44 AM

>> I don't know of any way to override the Safari browsers calling the keyboard.

make the field read-only. That's the only way to suppress the keyboard. But then the spinners might not work either (I haven't tested that though.)

Cheers
Bruce

Title: Re: iPad screen size
Post by: kingja on July 04, 2014, 06:49:23 PM

Bruce,

     Tested read-only and does not work.  The spinner controls go away leaving just a read only field.

Thanks