Modal Screen in Different Sizes?

Targets iOS
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iPad app:

It’s possible to make a screen and then showModal. The screen then covers most of the surface, and when it’s closed the previous screen (which was mainly hidden) is fully visible again.

The question: Is it possible to make the “modal screen” smaller?

The iPad app I’m working on has a bunch of user-settable items. Currently they’re all on one screen (separated by lines), but I think things would look and work better if they were on separate screens. The problem is that most of them contain few controls, and I think they would look silly on the standard size modal screen.

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Yes there is a way to change the size of the modal size. Not at my desk right now. Will post some code very soon.
It might actually be in iOSDesignExtensions. SetModalSizeXC maybe?

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Slight thread hijack: I can make a new screen that I “push” look pretty much identical to a modal screen and often use that. Why? Because if the screen you’re returning to needs to update, this just happens. With a modal screen, the Activate event doesn’t fire on the first screen.

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I put this change code in the Modal Screen’s Deactivated Event, which DOES fire.

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Just checked, iOSDesignExtensions has a SetPreferredContentSizeXC method.

Use it like this:

Var modal as New ScreenModal

modal.ShowModal(self, MobileScreen.ModalPresentationStyles.FormSheet) //first show the modal screen
//Then change its size
if self.ContentSize.Width > 540 then
  modal.SetPreferredContentSizeXC(new Size(540, 620)) //Change size here
End if
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