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LiveCode Mobile Development Beginner's Guide (2nd Edition)

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LiveCode Mobile Development Beginner's Guide (2nd Edition)

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (15 chapters)
LiveCode Mobile Development Beginner's Guide Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – adding the links card's init handler


Before proceeding, make sure that you are happy with the functions in the test stack and that you have copied them to the WebScraper stack script using the following steps:

  1. Go to the Links card of the WebScraper stack.

  2. Edit the card script and add these global variables and init function:

    global gPageHTML,gLinks
    
    on init
    if the platform is "iphone" or the platform is "android" then
      put getLinks(gPageHTML) into gLinks
      if the number of lines in gLinks = 0 then
         answer "There are no links in this page!"
      else
         mobilePick gLinks,0
         if the result > 0 then
          put the result into tLinkLine
          put line tLinkLine of gLinks into tLink
          go card "Browser"
          set the mgText of group "url" to tLink
          set the Text of field "NavBar" to "Browser"
          mobileControlSet "Page", "url", the mgText of group "url"
          end if
        end if
      end if
    end init
  3. Do a Test of the app.

  4. In the iPhone Simulator or Android device, if...