vertical tabBar possible?

Solar2D Widgets
#1

I started tackling orientation changes in my app and it is going amazingly well. As long as you never hardcode width and height values in your app but depend on globals or some other basis of common dimension variables when you define your screens it is very very fast to change from one orientation to another. Wonderful!!! Kudos to Corona Labs for making it so easy. Thank you very much!!! 

Now the question. When I go landscape, the usual tabbar on the bottom - titlebar on top approach does not leave much room in between for the data. I was wondering if the tabBar allows you to go vertical and tuck it in on one side. I don’t think it is possible but just wanted to ask to make sure.

Thanks much for confirming.

#2

Vote up…

I’d love to use vertical tabBar as well. :slight_smile:

#3

I imagine it’d be easy enough to use rotated images, then just rotate the entire widget? You’d not get text, but possibly you could include that in the icon itself?

#4

@rakoonic

Using rotate does visually change tabBar to look vertical, but the click area is all messed up. The button cannot properly catch the touch input.

#5

Vote up…

I’d love to use vertical tabBar as well. :slight_smile:

#6

I imagine it’d be easy enough to use rotated images, then just rotate the entire widget? You’d not get text, but possibly you could include that in the icon itself?

#7

@rakoonic

Using rotate does visually change tabBar to look vertical, but the click area is all messed up. The button cannot properly catch the touch input.

#8

Bumping this topic up. What was a nice to have just became a must have as IOS 8 introduced vertical tab bars with the iPhone 6 Plus. I hope this possibility for the tabbar widget can be considered so we can deliver apps that look like their native counterparts. Thanks.

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#9

I don’t believe that is a vertical tabBar.  That’s just the main row of the springboard launcher.  It now supports rotation.  I looked for iOS 8 native apps that had tabBars.  Either the app did not support rotation or if it did, it rotated to the bottom of the screen.

Rob

#10

Need to check on a real iPhone 6 Plus. I bet you this will become a common UI element. Tab bars have always mimicked what happens on the home screen. its the same UI concept. Anyways. Just putting it out there. 

#11

Bumping this topic up. What was a nice to have just became a must have as IOS 8 introduced vertical tab bars with the iPhone 6 Plus. I hope this possibility for the tabbar widget can be considered so we can deliver apps that look like their native counterparts. Thanks.

iphone-6-plus-ios-8-landscape-mode-540x3

#12

I don’t believe that is a vertical tabBar.  That’s just the main row of the springboard launcher.  It now supports rotation.  I looked for iOS 8 native apps that had tabBars.  Either the app did not support rotation or if it did, it rotated to the bottom of the screen.

Rob

#13

Need to check on a real iPhone 6 Plus. I bet you this will become a common UI element. Tab bars have always mimicked what happens on the home screen. its the same UI concept. Anyways. Just putting it out there.