I have a question about changing your pager orientation for landscape. I want to switch to vertical and I'm trying lorientation="vertical" and wideorientation="vertical" and neither is working. Also, if this is in the developer resources area, I apologize but would appreciate it if someone can point me where to look.

Thanks

When you set orientation settings within the App Creation Studio, it is important to remember that these settings are only honored for Ad-Hoc and Release build IPAs. fusebox, our testing tool, does not honor these settings.

This is for testing purposes and should not be indicative of the final product of the App. If you are building for only one orientation, you should be aware that fusebox will let you see the alternate screen setting you are not building for.

This community forum has some trouble copying and pasting WIRE directly into comments and topics. Because the XML based WIRE language uses < > brackets, they are lost when topics are published.

Remember to use this link to remind yourself of the HTML allowed in comments: http://community.rarewire.com/some.html

wrapping your WIRE snippets/examples in a <code> block will allow them to be seen.

Ian

I found some issues in the Add Media Content tutorials.

In Step 1 Line 2 you have the following code

however in the final code, the following is the "Image Name"

but in the final code there is an Alias name... alias="VID" which I believe is required for the video to play?

Finally, for some reason when I'm working on my own wire (not the constitution tutorial) using the final code, the video button and video panel show up on every page and not on my designated page 11 but I'll look this over more and contact you if I can't resolve

enjoy!
Tom

Is it possible to control the line-height (like in HTML) within a text object? In other words, can you control the distance between two lines of wrapping text within a wire object?

I will be uploading a video for my own magazine tutorial and I need to know how the video will effect the final file size of the magazine app. In the rare wire tutorial the 2 minute constitution.mp4 video was about 8 meg. My video is between 24 and 36 meg depending on if I use 15 or 24 Frames per second. My video size is 352 x 288.

so is there anything else I can do to trim the my MP4 file size without losing dimensions or smooth motion. I'm using iMovie 6.

and once the video is embedded in the app will it increase the magazine file size by the exact size of the video. So if my magazine app is 5meg will adding a 36 meg video increase the magazine to 41 meg on the iPad?

OK this is probably a really easy one! Just wondering how to create a standard navigation that stays stuck to the bottom of the screen, and has 4 buttons on it, which call 4 different pages?

Hi, i need to place a large amount of text that has several header styles and some main content. For example:
HEADER 1
HEADER 2
HEADER 3
CONTENT
HEADER 3
CONTENT
HEADER 2
HEADER 3
CONTENT
HEADER 3
CONTENT
What would be the best way to go about this? I looked into the texttemplate a little bit, but did not think that is what I need since the content will be in the app and not be being pulled in through a datasource

Any thoughts, ideas or answers would be great!
Thanks

It looks like if you set individual margin values but not all four (margin-left, margin-top, margin-right, margin-bottom) that some or all of them will not work.

Here is a simple example:


<main>

<panel name="body1" width="50%" height="100%" background="#ff0000">
<text name="text1" align="left" valign="bottom" margin="20" width="150" lwidth="200" height="150" background="#00ff00"
text="TEST type:text, name:text1, align:left, valign:bottom, margin:20"/>
</panel>

<panel name="body2" align="right" width="50%" height="100%" background="#ffffff">
<text name="text1" style="text" align="left" valign="bottom" margin-left="20" margin-top="20" margin-bottom="20"
width="150" lwidth="200" height="150" background="#00ff00"
text="type:text, name:text1, align:left, valign:bottom, margin-left:20, margin-top:20, margin-bottom:20"/>
</panel>

</main>


It makes a left and right column each with a text box which should be bottom left aligned but with a 20 pixel margin on the left and bottom. The text box in the right column does not have any margins.

Note that if 'margin-right="20"' is added to the second text box then it will honor the left and bottom margins.

This has been reported verbally but wanted to make sure that it was tracked somewhere in case other people are having difficulties.

I've created a measurement and coordinate finding tool in wire that I've found to be pretty handy when I'm trying to put elements on the screen. Using it has sped up my process quite a bit, instead of guessing and nudging panels into place I can pretty much get it the first time.

There are some quirks to it though. The PDF tag is a little tricky, even though it may be set to width="100%" height="100%" the actual pdf may not be tall enough or wide enough to fill the space depending on orientation, which will cause a false read for coordinates. The PDF will be centered automatically so you just have to find out what the margins are around the PDF are. You can then use the measurement aspect to find out what the margins are and then subtract that much from the x or y to correct the issue.

It's just one class, object, and action that has to be added into your wire. You can put the object inside of anything that you want to find coordinates within, but usually I just make it the very last thing inside of the main tag.

Using it is pretty simple just drag it so the top, left corner is where you want to find coordinates and then swipe your finger over the X and Y (left to right works the best). There are some basic instructions in the comments.

Feel free to play with it, modify, improve it. Please share any improvements you make here.

Here is the DOWNLOAD

Head on over to the Tutorials page within our Developer Resources and you will notice some WIRE examples that you can copy and add to your Apps. This should help give you a head start on some cool functionality. We will add more as we go along. Hope this helps!

http://content.rarewire.com/wordpress...

How do you access an individual "post" or entry out of an RSS/XML feed? I am able to display the feed in its entirety just fine, but I want to be able to display the entire post when click on each post. Do you have to pass a new query to the datasource, or do you have to assign some new properties to the object?

I didn't see anything in your datasource tutorial how to do so.

While practicing on your PDF tutorials with the new iPad I can not get the panel to display only on page 2 using the on page tag. It still displays on all pages and I've lifted the code directly from the tutorial as below.

Is there a way to use the action on the target of the action?

For example, if an action is called with a target of "abc" and I want to check if a child of "abc" called "def" has an alpha of 1, how can I do it (without using an alias of the target/child)?

Seeing it done in some of your current apps, how do you go about limiting the amount of text that is rendered through a tag? I only ask because with some of the data that I am pulling from a datasource is much too long and I want to shorten it.

Is there an attribute that I can add that enables some sort of character limit?