A few comments:
1) If I have a page that takes up the full screen, there is no way to shift the page up without it cutting something off. If I don't allow the page to use the space at the bottom of the screen where the page slider is, it's going to scale the page down to fit. Yes, I do this dynamically with a low quality zoom when the page overlay is displayed, as I wanted the full page still visible while the overlay is up. If you are saying to use that reduced page size all the time when the page slider is visible, I think most users would not want that, but I'd have to hear more feedback.
2) If the page scaling mode is set to fullscreen, the page slider will always be covering part of the page. I just mention this because I think the point I'm trying to make is that, in many situations, you can't avoid having something covered up by the page slider.
3) The bottom bar may have a little bit of room on an iPad Pro, but it certainly does not on a smaller iPad or iPad Air, and has no room at all on an iPhone. Regardless, pushing the icons so close together so that there is only 1 pixel between them causing issues with users accidentally tapping the wrong button. I have gotten many complaints about that over the years anytime I push the icons too close together, and I believe the UI guidelines normally call for a certain amount of padding between icons/buttons. So putting the page slider in the bottom overlay isn't really an option unless I did some major adjustments (like collapsing all of the icons into an overflow popup menu, making them less accessible).
What you have reported with the page slider visibility is certainly a bug - I'll get that fixed. I also don't think the page slider should be anchored to the bottom of the screen the way it is now as that causes issues with the multi-tasking bar in the OS. So I need to move the page slider up a little bit to prevent that.
Developing all this in a way that meets everyone's requirements/needs is never easy. A different way to solve the problem is to make the page slider less obtrusive, by removing the background and the labels and maybe just having partially transparent bar at the bottom of the page. forScore does this by just placing dots at the bottom of the creen with a circle for the handle, for example. I could look for a solution more along those lines.
Thanks,
Mike
1) If I have a page that takes up the full screen, there is no way to shift the page up without it cutting something off. If I don't allow the page to use the space at the bottom of the screen where the page slider is, it's going to scale the page down to fit. Yes, I do this dynamically with a low quality zoom when the page overlay is displayed, as I wanted the full page still visible while the overlay is up. If you are saying to use that reduced page size all the time when the page slider is visible, I think most users would not want that, but I'd have to hear more feedback.
2) If the page scaling mode is set to fullscreen, the page slider will always be covering part of the page. I just mention this because I think the point I'm trying to make is that, in many situations, you can't avoid having something covered up by the page slider.
3) The bottom bar may have a little bit of room on an iPad Pro, but it certainly does not on a smaller iPad or iPad Air, and has no room at all on an iPhone. Regardless, pushing the icons so close together so that there is only 1 pixel between them causing issues with users accidentally tapping the wrong button. I have gotten many complaints about that over the years anytime I push the icons too close together, and I believe the UI guidelines normally call for a certain amount of padding between icons/buttons. So putting the page slider in the bottom overlay isn't really an option unless I did some major adjustments (like collapsing all of the icons into an overflow popup menu, making them less accessible).
What you have reported with the page slider visibility is certainly a bug - I'll get that fixed. I also don't think the page slider should be anchored to the bottom of the screen the way it is now as that causes issues with the multi-tasking bar in the OS. So I need to move the page slider up a little bit to prevent that.
Developing all this in a way that meets everyone's requirements/needs is never easy. A different way to solve the problem is to make the page slider less obtrusive, by removing the background and the labels and maybe just having partially transparent bar at the bottom of the page. forScore does this by just placing dots at the bottom of the creen with a circle for the handle, for example. I could look for a solution more along those lines.
Thanks,
Mike