Universal Apps and Joystick Images

[Koji_Kabuto]

For me this is a bug, makes no sense what is happening and the solution is not to create our own Joystick with Multitouch. It is obvious that when you create a Universal app Joystick comes folded in small devices, which makes non-functional. They have the proof in your hands, both mine and Renatos are seeing it visually. We wander not attention seeking other solutions, try François and Andos can review our codes to make them find, incidentally, have mine and you can try right now.

[Anders]

The joystick image sizing works like this:

They are designed to be 2cm in diameter on iPad and 1.5cm on iPhone/iPod regardless of your window resolution/size if the joystick images are 80x80 in size (the default joystick size).
If you provided new joystick images sized 160x160 they would appear twice as large ~ 4cm on iPad and 3cm on iPhone/iPod.

It was designed like this because while screen resolutions and screen sizes differ in size across your devices, your fingers does not.

You can see this demonstrated here:
http://www.andersriggelsen.dk/clickt.../joystick1.jpg 1024x768 (fit outside setting)
http://www.andersriggelsen.dk/clickt.../joystick2.jpg 320x240 (fit outside setting)

The iPad and iPod Touch is displaying the exact same .cci file in the same image.

[Renatos]

I get it, but I don't agree with the fact we do not have a choice to adjust it to the size we choose. That's all.

[Koji_Kabuto]

If you provided new joystick images sized 160x160 they would appear twice as large ~ 4cm on iPad and 3cm on iPhone/iPod.

My images for the Joystick are 80 * 80 and it seems to me that I see them in the iphone more than 1.5 cm, I will check. Do now Andos, I wonder if I provide images of 40 * 40, going down screen 1 cm on the iPad 0.75 cm on iPhone?

Thanks for your answer!

[DistantJ]

People's fingers don't grow or shrink; it should be the same physical size on both devices, NOT the same pixel size. I thought this was a blessing to be honest. When I put Awesome Land out with my custom buttons (active objects and multiple touch) a lot of iPad users gave negative feedback about the buttons being large when upscaled to iPad. With MANOS I detected the device with the iOS object and shrunk the buttons down if running on iPad for that reason. Obviously things get a little more confused now that e iPad Mini is out, but It'd be crazy for the buttons not to work this way...

Sent from my iPad Mini using Tapatalk HD

[Keith]

Easy code to fix all of this. My joystick image is 150x150 and my buttons are 70x70. This has been tested on the iPhone 5, iPod 5G, iPad 2, iPad 3, iPhone 4S and iPod Mini with retina and non-retine displays.

Open your iOS project and look for Classes\Application\CJoystick.m.

Under the -initWithApp method look for "if(UI_USER_INTERFACE_IDIOM() == UIUserInterfaceIdiomPad)" and replace that whole if with the following:

if(UI_USER_INTERFACE_IDIOM() == UIUserInterfaceIdiomPad)
	{
		minSizeInCm = 14.8;
		desiredScreenSizeInCm = 2.0;
	}
	else
	{
        if ([[UIScreen mainScreen] respondsToSelector:@selector(displayLinkWithTarget:selector:)] &&
            ([UIScreen mainScreen].scale == 2.0)) {
            // Retina display
            
            minSizeInCm = 14;
            desiredScreenSizeInCm = 2.5;
        } else {
            // Non-Retina display
            
            minSizeInCm = 7;
            desiredScreenSizeInCm = 1.25;
        }
	}

[Keith]

It also works well with the joystick images at 100x100.