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Using Item Style Attributes to change position within a custom UITableViewCell

nick5454 — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 09:24:40 GMT

Do you have any links for this "table cell metadata" idea?

Using Item Style Attributes to change position within a custom UITableViewCell

nicholaslie — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 22:03:43 GMT

Thanks for your valuable feedback Nick! I think that would be difficult to accomplish, as you said. In Crosslight core project, we try as much as we can not to introduce platform-specific technologies into it, so that we can handle the behavior on each platform directly. Have you come across our form builders? Check out our MyInventory sample that comes with Crosslight, and check out Item.FormMetadata.cs. Since our form builders are based upon attributed properties, this way, it's platform-agnostic, and we can handle them properly based on the platform that we're currently working on. I'll try to raise this request to our development team, however, expect it not to be available anytime soon.

On a second thought, I have new suggestions for you. You can introduce your own "form metadata", but instead, a "table cell metadata" on which you can build in the core project, and translate them on each platform. Let me know if you have any other thoughts.

Thanks!

Using Item Style Attributes to change position within a custom UITableViewCell

nick5454 — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 13:22:27 GMT

Can you add being able to create a table cell in the shared code project with xaml? By this I mean I can define a xaml table definition complete with layout alignments, anchors, and docking and this gets translated to the proper platform.

This way we can have a UI Core project that includes our custom controls and it is a shared project and crosslight creates the actual control at runtime on each platform. I know it's a difficult task, but I think that would rock. This way we don't have to even open the UI project.

I'd be more than happy to beta test.

Thanks.

Using Item Style Attributes to change position within a custom UITableViewCell

nicholaslie — Wed, 23 Apr 2014 21:45:53 GMT

HI Nick,

It's very unfortunate, but it seems it's not possible right now using the StyleAttributes, since it only provides properties to change the background and foreground color, as well as applying strikethrough text. However, this issue is open as a feature request and will have it in our v3 roadmap.

Using Item Style Attributes to change position within a custom UITableViewCell

nick5454@yahoo.com — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 16:43:21 GMT

Can I use StyleAttributes or some type of converter to override at runtime the locations of elements within a UITableViewCell using the binding providers to separate the actual UI project.

I'd like to be able to define converters for item styles within ListView for Android and UITableViewCells in iOS, without write the code inside the platform specific UI project. So basically I have a UITableViewCell with several controls and at runtime using IValueConverters or style attribiutes in combination with Bind Providers change attribiutes, including the location and docking/anchors of the control at runtime through code, not the designer.

Is this possible?