screen.md

description
When building apps on Thunkable, Screens function like blank pages in a book. They allow you to display different components and information.

Screen

Understanding Screen Blocks

When "Screen1 Starts"

Event	Description
Starts	Triggers an event / set of events when the Screen is first opened

Event	Description
Opens	Triggers an event / set of events anytime the Screen is opened

Space elements horizontally

The Horizontal Alignment property allows you to space elements in a Screen horizontally

Space elements vertically

The Vertical Alignment property allows you to space elements in a Screen vertically

Add a background color or picture

Property	Description
Background Color	Default (none). Select any color using the color picker, RGBA or HEX value
Background Picture	You can upload a background image to your app or reference an image url e.g.beaver-yellow.png

Background Picture Resize Mode

This determines how to resize the image when the frame doesn't match the raw image dimensions.

• Cover: Fills the entire screen without changing the height and width ratio of the image

• Contain: The entire image will be scaled down to fit inside the screen, without changing the height and width ratio of the image

• Stretch: The image's height will change to fill the screen length-wise

• Repeat: Repeat the image to cover the screen. The image's height and width ratio

  will not change

• Center: Positions the image in the middle of the frame

Enable scrolling

Property	Description
Scrollable	Default (false). Indicates whether the screen is scrollable. For scrollable to work, you must also set your screen height to fit contents and the components in your screen must have heights set in absolute pixels

Hide (or show) status bar

Property	Description
Show Status Bar	Default (true). If set to false, hides the top status bar

Set orientation

Property	Description
Screen Orientation	Default (all). You can fix the screen orientation to portrait and landscape