Use a Frame or a Form?

[Bryan]

I see from the demos you can assign a frame to a ViewController. I see also you can assign a form?
This is good to separate out the code into different units, but I'm not sure which one I should use.

Should I use a Frame or Form? Are there any advantages or disadvantages (memory, performance etc...)
Sorry for all the questions lately, I'm trying to learn this iOS stuff.

Thanks!
Bryan

[Babak Yaghoobi]

Hi Bryan

I strongly recommend to use Frame instead of Form,
Using Frame is : High performance, low memory usage, ...

Regards

[Bryan]

Thanks again Babak!

[Gordon]

My apps normally assign all of the frames at start.. then, I design all of my code in a ONE unit per frame.. makes coding so easy.

[Bryan]

Hello,
I'm starting to get into frames with my app to separate out the logic like Babak and Gordon suggests, but I'm having a problem.
I would like to have a page control and with each page have a frame.
For some reason I can't do this.

I've dropped a DPFUIPageViewController on the form. Added pages, but I can't seem to assign a frame to the pages?

Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Bryan

[Gordon]

In my Formshow, on my main form,, I do..

LoginPage.Frame := TLoginFrame;
MainMenuPage.Frame := TMainMenuFrame;
OrderViewPage.Frame := TOrderViewFrame;

Once assigned, I just maintain my code in separate units, one for each frame. Makes the code easy.

Maybe what you are trying to do, is assign them in/on the component? You have to do it in code..

[Bryan]

Thanks Gordon,
What kind of controls are your LoginPage, MainMenuPage and OrderViewPage? Are they pages of a DPFUIPageViewController? Maybe I'm just using the wrong control?

I've looked at DPFUIPageControl also, and I can see where I can set the number of pages and I can set the current page, but if I put a label on the PageControl, then I set the CurrentPage to something different, it still shows the label.

Sorry, still confused.
Bryan

[Bryan]

I've also looked at the PageControl demo. It's not much help. I can see there are 5 pages set in the NumberOfPages property and I can see the 5 dots at the top of the control, but how do you "view" the pages?

Sorry for all the questions. I think I'm stuck in Win32 mode with the controls and don't see the "light" for the iOS PageControl.

[Gordon]

is there a demo you can send me to play with? I would mind playing with it..

Gordon

[Bryan]

Hi Gordon,
I really appreciate your help. I think it comes down to I'm not sure I'm using the correct component for what I'm trying to do.
I've attached a very small sample.
Regards,
Bryan

[Gordon]

what is your reasoning for using a pagecontrol v.s. navcontroller in this case?

[Bryan]

Hi Gordon,
I have no reason. I think it is because I don't know which one to use. So I guess I should be using NavController?

Bryan

[Bryan]

Hi Gordon,
Thanks for the suggestion on the NavController. I think this will work for me.

Bryan

[Fenistil]

Hi Bryan!

Check out this post, here I wrote a sample how to do what you want.

Greetings

[Bryan]

Hi Finistil!
Thanks for the link. I'm on the right track now thanks to you and Gordon.

Regards,
Bryan