Cascades Development

[ekke]

The ActionBar has some visibility options: HIDE, OVERLAY, DEFAULT

But one is missing: HIDE automatically  if some time of inactivity

example: looking at an Image would be great to disappear the ActionBar and TitleBar and if user Touches on Screen, it reappears.

I have a Feature Request here:

https://www.blackberry.com/jira/browse/BBTEN-196

please vote for it if it makes sense for you, too

after discussing possible workarounds with Animations or QTimer at IssueTracker, Twitter and BBM,

I wrote a small sample for you to copy/paste some code from or to get the idea:

https://github.com/ekke/snippet-cascades-hide-actionbar

(here's a video demoing what's the output:

http://vimeo.com/ekkescorner/cascades-hide-actionbar )

Attention: there are 2 bugs related with this:

if changing the orientation on AlphaDevice twice withoput doing anything else, contetn will be scrambled:

https://www.blackberry.com/jira/browse/BBTEN-183

workaround: tap anywhere on the screen before switching Orientation

TitleBar on Landscape is too small:

https://www.blackberry.com/jira/browse/BBTEN-206

(Attention: as of writing this message this Issue isn't public yet - you have to wait for approvement by RIM)

have fun with my example HowTo hide ActionBar and TitleBar.

I have implemented it together with Orientation Support: only in Landscape Title and ActionBar will be hidden after 3000 ms

ekke

[mgoulet]

ekke,

Thanks for your constructive post!

As you know, https://www.blackberry.com/jira/browse/BBTEN-196 has been addressed.

We will need to dig deeper for the other two and follow-up on the raised JIRAs.

Thanks,

Martin

[jamiejulius]

Hi,

Great suggestion, ekke.

I'm curious to know what is meant by "BBTEN-196 had been addressed". Should we be expecting this feature to be provided by RIM in a coming beta?

Thanks,

Jamie

[Meghasanghvi]

Hi,

You can hide ActionBar using following code.

 actionBarVisibility = ChromeVisibility.Hidden

For visibility of ActionBar you can use following code.

 actionBarVisibility = ChromeVisibility.Visible

To implement this on ImageView you can add code on Imageview onTouch event.

Thanks,

Megha.

Feel free to press like or accept as a solution.

[jamiejulius]

I believe that the feature request was to support a new mode whereby the bar will automatically hide itself after some time of inactivity.