How do I use anchor for my app?

Hi. I'm planning and trying to figure out how to make a ios game with construct 2.

What I need is a sort of bar at the bottom that always is there, the same with a top bar (sort of menu and header).

I want this to work on both iPhone 5's and iPhone 4's (different screen heights). I tried out using the anchor but it didn't do anything! It seems like the anchor behaviour doesn't work at all? Or am I using it wrong, perhaps?

If you haven't already, read these. Maybe you don't even need Anchor.

https://www.scirra.com/tutorials/73/sup ... reen-sizes

https://www.scirra.com/tutorials/1126/m ... ces/page-1

https://www.scirra.com/tutorials/1042/h ... creen-size

good luck

codah I've read ashley's tutorial and just finished with the other 2, as they are very helpful, I don't think they really solve my problem! :/

I've solved how to support the screen sizes of iPhone 4 & 5 by centering everything (I thought I would be able to keep doing that to avoid the problem) but now I need to have a bar at the bottom to stay at the bottom somehow, and I feel like anchor would be the best solution if I actually knew how it worked and such

I'm not sure how they don't address your needs. You want to support 2 aspect ratios, 3:2 and 16:9. The height or width don't matter as such, it's just the aspect ratio.

What I've done on 2 projects is:

set Scale outer on my project

set Window size to the 16:9 aspect ratio

make the layouts' width to the 'wider' aspect ratio (e.g. 3:2)

make sure the important stuff is in the 'safe zone' of 16:9

I did use Anchor on one of those projects to keep buttons on a button bar in position.

So anyway what happens when you try to use Anchor, even in a test project? Can you provide a capx?

note: I have no iPhone app experience, but as far as I can see the above holds true.

Figured it out with anchors! You need to have the actual object on the window edge for it to work, so dumb of me xD