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Tool for Offline Animal Observations on the iPad with ArcGIS for iOS
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Suggest static size for input forms #211

Open regan-sarwas opened 6 years ago

regan-sarwas commented 6 years ago

From Bill Johnson:

Allow setting the box used for entering bird counts to be a predefined static length. We only required four rows to use on the box, but when it rendered it tended to stretch out and jump around to a new location and size particularly when it jockeyed for real estate with the keyboard popup. Often there was a lot of empty space padded into that box. I always had to wait a second or two for the screen to stabilize before I dared touch in the 2 marbleds or whatever. I think a fixed length might solve that.

regan-sarwas commented 6 years ago

I understand that the resizing is annoying and slows down your productivity. I would like to find a solution to make it more stable. I have place a high priority on this issue.

Currently, I am deferring to the OS to determine the best sizing. There is a lot to juggle: screen size, resolution, orientation, anchor point, keyboard visibility, etc. I am afraid that setting constraints may produce better results in a specific set of conditions, but disastrous results in others. Granted that shouldn't stop me from trying.

In truth, I am using a third party forms library, and so it is possible that there are issues there, but I strongly suspect that they are deferring to the OS. I would really like to replace the forms library I am using with a newer/better library (see Issue #107), and that may improve things, or render any improvements I make in the short term mute.