In reference to "Specifying a Launch Screen Image" from:
https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/ConfiguringWebApplications/ConfiguringWebApplications.html
Is launch.png cached on first use then used locally or does it get fetched from the Internet each time?
The reason I ask is we were thinking of programatically cycling the png every day (up to 7 times, one for each day of the week). E.g. Having <%=strFileName %> in place of launch.png.
You can't cycle the image in the launch screen in any way. The only thing you can do is that you make the launch screen white (or some other color if more approrpriate) and then that you show some page as quickly as possible that will contain your 'fake' launch screen content.
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I'm trying to implement unity ads for the first time in an android game. Everything seems to be working properly except for one thing. When the ShowAd method is called
it takes 2 seconds for the advertisement to be actually displayed, during which time if you turn off and open the phone screen, the game stops, superimposing a black screen on the screen. I think what really happens is that the ad starts in the background until the application loses its focus, and when I reopen the phone the ad closes automatically leaving only the black screen. I thought that to avoid this, I should reload the application based on a check in onapplicationfocus function, such as: if the user pressed the lock button on the phone, if the screen is closed, or simply a check if the application is lost focus due to the ad or another event. Another solution would be to configure the application to run in the background somehow, but I did not manage to apply any of the above. Does anyone know how to apply one of the above? Thanks in advance!
Every application in Windows 8 starts from this kind of view
(below is camera application) :
My question is :
Is this possible to change programmatically this view for
progress bar (C# or XAML) or any other animation ?
Or is this view related with time computer need to start application so
we can not use resource of our app yet ?
You cannot change how the launch screen is displayed. You can only change the picture and color.
However, the way to extend the launch screen is to make sure your app's first action is to display another launch screen (typically identical to the first with an added progress bar) while the rest of the app is getting ready. This approach is described in this guide.
Please keep in mind that an extended load screen might not be the best user experience. After all the user is still waiting for the app to launch. I recommend that you optimize launch time to avoid using the extended launch screen if you can. I cover this in more detail in my book (sorry for the shameless plug).
That screen is displayed while the runtime is starting your application. Its an image as defined by your application, so to my knowledge, there is no way to inject logic.
However, you can make your app "start" fast (so that the runtime removes the "loading" image), then put up a splash screen while the rest of your content loads. The NFL for Windows 8 app does a good job of this, as do several other apps.
I recently ran into weird bug in Bing map control. In short, if the connection is poor and you press the hardware back button on page with map while the map is still loading some tiles, the navigation process hangs up (some times up to 10 or even more seconds). And in case when the time is more than 3 seconds the app will be "a little" not user-friendly and will not meet the technical certification requirements (5.1.3).
To repeat the bug you can create the app with two pages. First one with button to navigate to the second page. And the second page with just map control with high ZoomLevel (more than 14 for example). After the app launches, you navigate to the second page and move map to some unloaded area and then (without waiting for the download to complete) press the hardware back button. And also you somehow must "create poor" connection (in my case, simply disconnecting the device from the computer is enough).
And does anyone have any idea why this occurs and how to workaround it?
EDIT: The same bug can be observed in the Foursquare application for wp7 - if you go to the page where the place is shown on the map in full screen, then slide the map into an unloaded region and press the hardware button back.
It seems that the problem is in the Bing Map Control.
Hide the Maps control using the Visibility first, before you navigate out of the page. That way the control will become inactive and memory consumption of the page will decrease, thus allowing to switch pages faster.
So I have tried searching for the better part of a day for the answer to a simple question. I want my C# application to popup another winform on a timer and then close it after a delay. Simple enough, done and done. Now my issue is that I want it to actually be on top of other applications UNLESS they are full screen. By that I mean a true full screen application such as a game. I do not want to interfere with such an application since it should take priority over my application.
The issue is that I am using the 'OnTop' property on the popup form and, while it works perfectly for any other applications I have been testing it while playing a full screen game and the form, when it "Show()"s, takes the full screen application and drops it into windowed mode.
Is this the intended effect of the 'OnTop' property with full screen applications? If so is there a way that I can have my form popup on top of normal windowed windows and not interfere with full screen applications?
Any links, example, a kick in the general direction is great. The only hits that I come up with when searching for winforms involving full screen is people trying to get their application into full screen or having their application take focus away from another application.
Thanks on advance.
(I didn't post any code due to it just being a simple winform that is "formX:Show()" on a timer with the "onTop" property set)
(EDIT) So thanks to awilson53 for putting me on the right track I was able to find a method (albeit somewhat picky) to determine if an application is full screen. Seems kinda simple, and an "well duh", answer after all is said and done.
95% of the credit goes to the author of the article: http://www.richard-banks.org/2007/09/how-to-detect-if-another-application-is.html
~5% goes to awilson53 for getting me on the right track. :)
Check out this wrapper for the EnumWindows function. This will allow you to enumerate all open windows and determine their window state. You will want to check the EnumWindowItem.Maximized property, and if it is true set your OnTop property to false. If none of the EnumWindowItem's return Maximised you can set OnTop to true.
I am working on a WinForms application and have to show the Application Icon(Notification Icon) in the System tray. Things working fine. But when I go to a sub page from the main page and come back and check the system tray It has 2 notification Items in the system tray. Again When I go to another page and see, another duplicate Icon appears in the system tray. Like that the number of notification icons gets increase when i go to another page and come back.
If someone can Guide me where I have gone wrong, really appreciate. Thanks in advance...
Since you're not giving any code, I'm gonna go on hunches and lucky guesses:
The logic you implemented to generate a notification icon gets executed on an event that occurs when you change page in your app. (Likely)
There is a chipmunk that lives inside your computer, and he felt like monday is messing-with-da-master day. (Not so likely)