kcoul

I am curious if anyone here has taken the time to find a way to make a "one size fits all" user interface for their Max-based application.

In other words, a way to make a single UI that would look good on any screen size/resolution.

I am very interested in solving this problem as it's one of the last few challenges I still face before I can release what I hope will be a very useful app.

I can use the screensize object to more or less figure out all the screen resolutions of a single monitor or multimonitor setup.

The first thing I'd want to do is inform the user that they need to pick their preferred monitor to use if I detect a multi-monitor setup, since naturally the UI will only be designed for a single monitor.

This should bring me to a finite list of possible resolutions. From here, I suppose I have two options:

1. Brute force a set of rules for every possible resolution and retrieve explicit positions for each portion of the UI for that resolution, say from a coll object.

2. Try to break down all the possible resolutions into categories and apply some kind of constraint-based UI layout, perhaps using some sort of prioritization scheme.

If anyone has any experience working on this sort of thing, advice or example snippets would be greatly appreciated!

In other words, a way to make a single UI that would look good on any screen size/resolution. 

Here's where I am so far:
I can use the screensize object to more or less figure out all the screen resolutions of a single monitor or multimonitor setup. 

1. Brute force a set of rules for every possible resolution and retrieve explicit positions for each portion of the UI for that resolution, say from a coll object.
2. Try to break down all the possible resolutions into categories and apply some kind of constraint-based UI layout, perhaps using some sort of prioritization scheme. 

If anyone has any experience working on this sort of thing, advice or example snippets would be greatly appreciated!


Equivalent of AutoLayout, or Explicit Layouts for Max UIs?