Menu with large Icons

[Former Member]

Hi all

How can I make the menu icons show large. I have a program for a tablet written for touchscreen. But my icons are small. I do not need font underneath. Only large icons.

Can anyone help me. Thank you.

André Rust

[Former Member]

Hi Andre;

   Suggestion:  Have a look at Appeon Mobile for this ... Great White North Technical Evangelist: Appeon Mobile 2.0 Beta

I now have my PB applications working on Apple and Android tablets ... including MDI based - which BTW works and looks fabulous. 

Regards ... Chris

[former_member329524]

BTW, is there a way to deploy a PB Win32 App to the tablet directly, without using Appeon? I never actually thought of that, even though it makes sence that there should be a way...

[former_member190719]

Only if you have a tablet (more likely an ultrabook or convertible laptop) running a Windows OS.

[Former Member]

We have already tested Appeon. But the effort to adapt the source code is high. Appeon unsupported everything example TRY-CATCH.

We use W8.1 Tablet.

[Former Member]

It works fine on Win8.1 Tablet.

[Former Member]

Hi Andre;

FYI: Appeon is going to support the TRY...CATCH in the next release!  

BTW: The unsupported features of PB are most likely supported in the the Appeon_WorkArounds.pbl supplied with the product. My framework uses that to make PB C/S to Web & Mobile transparent.  🙂

Regards ... Chris

[Former Member]

No ... only Appeon converts your PB code to a native Apple or Android application!  

Otherwise, you would have to rewrite your PB application in another development tool like WinDEV for example.

[former_member329524]

First of all - a question:

Why do you try to use a menu object for something like a tablet?

Why not just creat a custom visual uo, make it as pretty as you want to and put it on the main menu window. Then open all the other windows below the uo... Becasue, a regular menu will not show large icons, even if you specify show toolbar text option.

Just wondering...

UPD:

You could also ditch the MDI frame altogether (this is a tablet touch app, not a desktop app, after all). You can create an ancestor window with the above "menu" uo and inherit all windows from this ancestor. This way you will have the menu on all user windows and you will be able to design it as you wish.

Message was edited by: Arcady Abramov

[Former Member]

This program was developed by PK 2.5 migrated to PB 12.5. In order to rewrite it takes a while. The customer wanted but now use tablet. The software also runs flawlessly.

[Former Member]

FYI: PK applications migrate to Appeon Mobile actually quite easily!