How to "slide in" a TableView?

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Hello,

 
I am busy with an iPhone application and I'd like to slide in a TableView over the Mainform of the application
on a button click and slide it out again later.
At the moment I am designing the TableView on a second form and simply show that form on demand and
hide it again on demand.
 
Now I tried to slide in that form using the following code:
 
frmSelectFiles.Left := Self.Width + 10; // to bring it out of the view
frmSelectFiles.Show; // Show the form outside the view
frmSelectFiles.AnimateFloatWait('Left', 0, 0.5); // slide in the form
 
But that does somehow not work.
How can I achieve the desired effect and design the different TableViews in different containers/forms?
 
best regards and many thanks,
 
Thomas
 
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Hi, 


It is unclear what exactly is the issue and how this relates to our components?
Can you send us the project so we can investigate this here?

Kind Regards, 
Scheldeman Pieter
3

Hello Pieter,

 
I definitely don't say that there is a issue related to your components!
I was just asking what is the correct/best way to achive this "slide in/out" effect
on an iOS device but still arranging components nicely seperated on different forms.
Maybe somebody has a helpfull tip for this situation and wants to share this information?
 
best regards,
 
Thomas  
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Hi,

Perhaps you could use a single form and store the components in 2 separate Panels.
Then place one panel "out of sight" with a Tfloatanimation attached, slide the panel in by animating the Position.X property. 

Kind Regards, 
Scheldeman Pieter
5

Hello Pieter,

 
that is exactly what I did first, but when you start to create multiple complex
views, all contained in one form, then in no time you get a very "messy" mainform.
So I started to create one form for every new view.
 
best regards,
 
Thomas
6
Thomas,

I have not tested this here yet, but can you actually display 2 forms simultaneously in an iOS project?
Also, dropping a TFloatAnimation on the form doesn't allow selection of the Position.X property on a form.
In my opinion, animations directly on the form are not allow, or will simply not work.

Yet, we are currently working on a TMS Pack for FireMonkey that will be released soon and contains a new component TTMSFMXPageSlider which animates multiple pages that slide in from the right. Perhaps this might be a solution for your issue, you can download a trial version to verify if this is the component you need when the pack is released.

Kind Regards, 
Scheldeman Pieter
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Hello Pieter,

 
> have not tested this here yet, but can you actually display 2 forms simultaneously in an iOS project?
Yes you can, I have this as an unwanted side-effect. When I show the second form with the TableView to
select a file, this form does for example not cover the complete mainforn and I can see parts of the mainform
below the TableView. Only after rotating the device, the form (and the TableView) is sized correctly.
By the way I am only talking about the XCode iPhone simulator, I have no clue how it looks on a physical device.
 
>Yet, we are currently working on a TMS Pack for FireMonkey that will be released soon and contains a new component >TTMSFMXPageSlider which animates multiple pages that slide in from the right
That sounds indeed very intersting when it works on iOS!
 
best regards,
 
Thomas
 
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Thomas, 


The Pack for FireMonkey has just been released.
http://www.tmssoftware.com/site/tmsfmxpack.asp

Regards, 
Pieter