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Reputation: 87

How to create dynamic UI?

Recently, I got a application to build for various mobile phones. Basically the Windows Mobile 6.x phones. After thinking a little a bit about the application I stuck at one place. How one can build a portable application that work with different resolution and different screen size phones. So that UI is visible correctly on all the phones. Is there any tool or library avialable in the market? Or How do you do that?

Thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 655

Answers (3)

Yuriy Vikulov
Yuriy Vikulov

Reputation: 2499

Very useful code in my case, to determine the width of UI element:

Graphics gr = Graphics.FromImage(new Bitmap(1, 1));
d.Size = gr.MeasureString("@@/@@/@@", d.Font).ToSize();

where d is control

Upvotes: 0

PhilChuang
PhilChuang

Reputation: 2566

Assuming you're doing .NET WinForms, a couple ideas come to mind:

1) Create your UI such that all the controls use some sort of docking, that way they will stretch to fill any orientation/resolutions. Then make sure you test with the different emulators and see how the UI looks on different resolutions. Tweak as necessary.

2) Do #1, but also add in some manual sizing code in the Form.Activated and Form.Resized events.

Upvotes: 2

Lucian
Lucian

Reputation: 452

Make-up your mind and then rephrase the question. If it is Symbian/S60 that you are targeting then open SDK's documentation (or Library section on Forum Nokia) and search for "scalable ui"

If you target both Symbian/S60 and WM then the answer to your question is Qt ( http://qt.nokia.com ).

Upvotes: 0

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