Some window drawing oddities when running on MacOS desktop

[chris.com]

Hi there. I'm running UD Mobile on my M4 Mac Mini (Sequoia 15.2)

I've noticed two somewhat strange behaviors on the favorites screen.

1. When scrolling down to the bottom of the favorites tab, the window cuts the names off the favorites that border the bottom of the window. Resizing doesn't reveal them. (This is demonstrated in the first part of the attached clip.)
2. I feel like based on the contents of the various favorites tiles (the icons and title widths,) I should be able to get the window quite a bit narrower. It seems to have a strange an arbitrary point at which making it narrower causes everything to repaginate awkwardly. (This can be seen in the last part of the video at around 13 seconds in.)

Anyway... it's not a showstopper, but I thought I'd bring it to your attention. As always, thanks so much for all the incredible work you've done and continue to do on this app. Always grateful.

-Chris

Edited Sunday at 03:48 AM by chris.com

[dbwarner5]

@Javi I can repeat the same as above. 

Additionally, I cant get the scroll bar to show my last row completely. Only the top half of the cells. 

Side note: when did this become available on the Mac?  AWESOME!  GREAT JOB JAVI!

[dbwarner5]

@chris.com Chris, just curious if you are aware of Folders? You can place items in a folder and have that folder on your main favorites screen. May help with the large number of items you have on that screen. 

See screen video below.

[chris.com]

@dbwarner5 From what I understand, when Apple first released desktop Macs with Apple Silicon, they opened up the App Store on the Mac to allow you to install any iOS application (since the Apple Silicon desktop processors are the same type of ARM processors that run iOS devices.) Not too long after that, some developers objected because they felt they should be in the position to decide whether their app would be available as a desktop app. Apple capitulated and allowed developers to decide if their iOS apps could be downloaded using the MacOS desktop App Store. Fortunately for us, @Javi and the folks at UD did not put that restriction on UD Mobile. And Javi has been very kind to address and fix several issues with UD Mobile running on MacOS. And I'm grateful since being able to run it on my desktop and laptop computers has really been wonderful.

@dbwarner5 BTW... I do use several folders on the Favorites screen. But for the most part, I like having most items at the root level. Just a personal preference... I prefer to scroll up and down rather than drill in an out. (if you'll pardon the expression. 🙃 )

Edited Sunday at 04:39 PM by chris.com

[dbwarner5]

Agree1. I have built a pretty extensive UDM configuration. And it's pretty laborious on my iPhone. would have much preferred it on my Mac. But since its really for mobile use, the formatting that I choose needs to work on the iPhone.

But almost everyone of my favorites has advanced configurations or multiple programs etc, it would have been so much easier on my Mac.

This is awesome. I have been reluctant (time commitment) to add some more "features" to my UDM but now knowing I can do it on my Mac, I will be much more willing to continue to develop!

[chris.com]

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This is awesome. I have been reluctant (time commitment) to add some more "features" to my UDM but now knowing I can do it on my Mac, I will be much more willing to continue to develop!

@dbwarner5 The nice thing is that once you have things set up how you want on your Mac, you can export the app's settings, airdrop that settings file from your Mac to the iPhone's or iPad's "Files" app, and then import that settings file into the UDMobile iOS app. It's quite fantastic. 👍

[dbwarner5]

1 hour ago, chris.com said:

@dbwarner5 The nice thing is that once you have things set up how you want on your Mac, you can export the app's settings, airdrop that settings file from your Mac to the iPhone's or iPad's "Files" app, and then import that settings file into the UDMobile iOS app. It's quite fantastic. 👍

Agree.. that is how I loaded it into the Mac today. I also copy my "main" file to my wife's phone, iPad and a wall iPad to keep everything consistent. 

@Javi has done a great job with this whole app. We also use geofencing for my phone vs my wifes' or together to iniiiate things at the house and it has worked great! 

[Javi]

My guess is the tabs being at the top (Apple API) is causing a calculation issue with the bottom.  I'll take a look at both issues when I get some time.