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OriginalGriff wrote: and believe that 50 controls to the square inch is a good average
Oi what s wrong, oh wait you said average, thats Ok then.
Battleshit grey, the only way to design a UI.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Personally, I don't use visual designers at all - they just stick loads of margin and other crap in. Not done any Xamarin, but does it give you a visual indication of what your XAML looks like when rendered?
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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You actually got Xamrin Forms installed & working? See my post in Mobile[^].
I just got started and I'm sick of it already.
BTW, what book are you referring to?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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I have it on my iPad, but it's an early version. Thanks for the linke. I'll download the PDF and see if it's changed.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Yes - it took a while, but most of that was swearing at emulators.
I've got it running on Windows aps (8.1 in theory), my Android tablet and the Android emulator (though that's gawd awful slow).
It's a good framework, I think - difficult to tell, I hardly know it - and it has a huge potential if they develop it a bit. One app to write in C# and you get Windows, Windows Phone, Android and iOS? That could work to save WP from the dumping ground it seems headed for.
But it needs a designer for that.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Use the Visual Studio emulator.
The Android SDK Emulator are.. horrendous!
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OriginalGriff wrote: but surely MS can rework the WPF designer for the job?
MS has never been able to figure out how to handle all the different resolutions and aspect ratios of screens, so no, I don't think they'll try very hard to fix this. Their position has pretty much always been to either let a layout manager do the work, or to have you write code to position the controls where you want them on the different form factors and resolutions you choose to support. Seems Xamarin forms took that same attitude and ran with it.
Thwarting WinForms to allow designer to be used to make multiple layouts and allow switching between them at runtime was interesting code to write. I can see why nobody has wanted to do it.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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If a frog leaps off a cliff, is he trying to Kermit suicide?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Surely those lying felts can't commit suicide?
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Nah, he just wanted to croak.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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A new principle applied here, the frog of war.
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Especially to those frog faced soldiers.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Frog-faced soldiers join for amphibious reasons, or so I'm toad.
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That's assuming he will miss piggy-backing on a big bird or some other animal you grouch.
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Maybe he just doesn't want to go on a summer holiday?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I saw him do it...he was Gonzo quickly.
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Sounds like rather Fozzie logic to me.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Just trying to get to Sesame Street.
Hogan
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what if it is a female frog, or does the question only relate to male frogs?
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List of famous female frogs, please .....
Uh-huh, thought so!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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MarcusCole092076 wrote: Pufnstuf
Indeed they were!  I really didn't get how 'trippy' it was at the time.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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