Android Z-Order, Native Controls, and 10.3 Rio

[Mohammed Nasman 11]

Finally  ControlType  of TEdit will arrive to Android apps, it will solve a lot of problems with text, specially with RTL languages.

 

http://delphi.org/2018/11/android-z-order-native-controls-and-10-3-rio/

[Yaron 53]

I'm have two issues with v10.3 and TEdit.ControlType set to TControlType.Platform:
 

1. Under windows (android is fine) using FMX, changing the Height property results in a corrupted dialog (the background isn't filled, showing a 'window' to the form and underlying visual components), here's the code I use to create the TEdit:

  textInputEdit                                    := TEdit.Create(MainForm);
  textInputEdit.Parent                             := MainForm;
  textInputEdit.Width                              := Trunc(clientWidth*idMaxWidth);
  textInputEdit.Height                             := Trunc(textInputLabelOK.Font.Size*2);
  textInputEdit.StyledSettings                     := [TStyledSetting.Family];
  textInputEdit.Font.Size                          := textInputLabelOK.Font.Size;
  textInputEdit.ControlType                        := TControlType.Platform;
  {$IFDEF MSWINDOWS}
  textInputEdit.TextSettings.FontColor             := TAlphaColorRec.Black;
  {$ELSE}
  textInputEdit.TextSettings.FontColor             := TAlphaColorRec.White;
  {$ENDIF}
  textInputEdit.KillFocusByReturn                  := True;
  textInputEdit.KeyboardType                       := TVirtualKeyboardType.Alphabet; // is this good?
  textInputEdit.TextPrompt                         := strEnterYourName;
  textInputEdit.SetBounds(Trunc((clientWidth-textInputEdit.Width)/2),Trunc(clientHeight*textInputEditMargin),textInputEdit.Width,textInputEdit.Height);

 

2. When I enter RTL text into the dialog, the resulting text STILL appears in reverse order when assigned to a TLabel for display.

 

Edited November 25, 2018 by Yaron

[Mohammed Nasman 11]

14 hours ago, Yaron said:

2. When I enter RTL text into the dialog, the resulting text STILL appears in reverse order when assigned to a TLabel for display. 

 

 

I think RTL language will work only with controls that has ControlType  property set o Platform, they didn't mention they add it to TLabel.

 

[Yaron 53]

Yes, but what's the point of all of this if you can't display the text properly...

[Kryvich 165]

The main goal in 10.3 was to introduce Z-Order. So we can now place controls over video as example. Broader support of native controls planned for the first half of 2019, for 10.3.x updates. https://community.embarcadero.com/article/news/16638-rad-studio-august-2018-roadmap

[Yaron 53]

It's not so much about native control as it's about RTL support...

[Mohammed Nasman 11]

3 hours ago, Yaron said:

It's not so much about native control as it's about RTL support...

I think they failed to add RTL to FMX, so they bypass it to mobile's OS to do the work.