CommandFusion/iViewer-For-Android — Issue #5: Render GUI from top left (instead of centering)
Author: jarrodbell
Created: 2012-02-27 12:34:32+00:00
State: open
Labels: enhancement, gui rendering

There needs to be an option (once scaling modes are enabled) to change where the GUI should take its reference point from when rendering a GUI that is too large or too small for the current orientation.

For instance, when designing a GUI for kindle, 1024x600, there is a constant bar at the bottom of screen which takes up 20 pixels of height. This forces the GUI when designed for 600 height to lose part of the top and part of the bottom of the GUI as its centered before being rendered to screen.

If we were able to set reference point to top left, then only the 20 bottom pixels of the GUI would be lost, and makes it much easier to design for room in the bottom 20 pixels, allowing the same size GUI to work on any device that has the permanent status bar, and a device that uses hard buttons (and no on-screen status bar).