There are some third party themes on DeviantArt which change the way the toolbar works.
I would like to mod the toolbar in a way similar to this. Specifically I want this behavior: I want the start menu icon to be right-justified, the program icons to be center justified (with the option of having pinned icons forced to be listed before unpinned icons), and then other icons for background services and time are left justified.
In my previous question I give an example that illustrates my specifications.
Now that React Native is supported by Visual Studio, it would be cool if I could use React Native to mod the Windows UI. Is there some kind of wrapper that allows me to manipulate UI elements like icons, system font, toolbar background, windows appearance, etc... in a similar way someone working in a front-end Javascript framework would be comfortable in?
Also there is this program for Windows 7 called DualMonitor which creates another toolbar on the second monitor. It would also assign the program icon to the toolbar on the same screen.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/dualmonitortb/
https://www.deviantart.com/browse/all/customization/skins/windows/win10/
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I'm currently adding a popup (Add To Home Screen Feature) to an existing mobile web app using jQuery mobile. I would like to place the exact same icon the user has on their phone (based on Android version) inside the popup instructions rather than show 6 different icons the user may have.
Is there any specific jquery/javascript doing this or can anyone provide or direct me to an icon set (specifically just the menu icon) with android version numbers that I can pull from to create some logic to determine exactly the menu icon they need (based on version) to press to bookmark the site? I can't find this anywhere.
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Looking specifically for hardware specific menu icons for Android devices. They use many different kinds and would like to know if I can detect the device hardware being used and use the appropriate icon? Is this even possible?
You can figure out the android version using this code from another answer.
There used to be no standard for android menu buttons. Hardware manufacturers tended to make the menu icon whatever they wanted. I would heavily suggest using the modern, unified icon with three dots like this one from the android developers site.
Is there a more native solution using Phonegap to create the iOS7 blur effect other than using CSS or javascript?
I have never used Phonegap before, my app needs the blur effect and I'm trying to decide to either use my web skills to create this app or hire a native developer.
Thanks guys!
The answer is, as usual, it depends.
CSS3 does support blur, but not in the same way iOS 7 uses. This means it is possible to create a static blur (say, on the navigation bar), but there is no great way discovered (last I knew) to enable a dynamic blur -- which is probably what you want, if trying to mimic iOS 7.
Although it flies a bit in the face of the question to pose this as a solution, one option is to simply not implement a blur. You can approximate something similar by using a gradient (say, 75% opaque to 100% opaque). Depending on your needs, this may be sufficient. (I first noticed this at this site: https://mir.aculo.us/2013/09/16/how-to-create-a-web-app-that-looks-like-a-ios7-native-app-part-1/)
The other option is to use a native navigation bar. It introduces its own set of problems (for example: how best to synchronize your non-native view transitions with native navigation bar's transitions), but it means you also get iOS 7's blurring on the navigation bar for free. I've got a (very alpha) plugin that implements this (as well as toolbars) here: http://plugins.cordova.io/#/package/com.photokandy.nativecontrols
I have a web page that I am trying to make "friendly" to touch devices. With the proliferation of devices with medium sized screens (small tables, large phones) my approach is to make one responsive layout with CSS and javascript tweaks where necessary. This is going pretty well, but I'm wrestling with select controls.
On my android phone and android tablets, the browsers that I've tested render a friendly large dialog when I touch a select control (I still need to test an Apple device), but on a Windows 8 touchscreen laptop, I am left trying to click the little select options. Other than just making the select control a very large font, is there already an established way to make the select more friendly?
I'm thinking of detecting ontouchstart then creating a pop up div with buttons or styled hyperlinks to give an experience like that provided by Android - but then I'd need to disable this on browsers that already handle select controls well...
Anyone have any advice? (I don't have any code yet, and this would apply to any select control)
The most friendly way to deal with controls is to not touch them at all. Let the browser handle them the best way it can — unless you're providing extra functionality like you can with Chosen.js
Usually, yes, setting a larger font size would help. http://css-tricks.com/dropdown-default-styling/
I'm trying to costumize tabbar interface for my app, is it possibile to change font, font size, put custom backround pattern image?
I realy need to change it so it can fit my app needs.
I'm the author of the tab bar plugin (repo on GitHub). It does not yet support changing the background image or the font, but it shouldn't be a big problem to implement this. I'll put it on the wishlist but at the moment I don't have time. If you want to implement it yourself in the meantime, look at the tab bar's setBackgroundImage method and in the plugin code, search for selectedImageTintColorRgba to see where you have to implement additional options.
I am looking for the event that toggles the appbar in javascript. So it's basically the "edge-swipe" gesture event on the top/bottom edge of the screen.
For example, I want to show a text "edge swiped" on the page when the user swipe the upper or butto edge of the screen, without declaring a app bar in the page. How will I be able to do that?
I tried crossslide event and it doesn't seem to be right.
you can see the documentation for AppBar here
Appbar has four events: afterhide, aftershow, beforehide and beforeshow.
Check the documentation for more details
Cross-slide won't work for you because it's a gesture that can start anywhere.
There's no edge-slide event that is exposed to a Metro app. Windows 8 detects the edge-slide and raises the app bar for you automatically (when you have one).
Maybe they'll add one in the future, but who know's if or when, so you'll probably want to do your own gesture tracking. I'd suggest you have look at the PointerPoint class and building your own custom gesture recognizer.
A basic edge swipe should be easy enough to recognize, though you'll have to pay attention to all the pointers on screen. For example, if I have a tablet that tracks 5 fingers and one of them edge-slides, do you recognize the gesture regardless or only if there is a single touch point active at the time? That's up to you.