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LiveCode Mobile Development Beginner's Guide

By : Colin Holgate
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LiveCode Mobile Development Beginner's Guide

By: Colin Holgate

Overview of this book

LiveCode is a tool for developing mobile apps designed for those who don't want to use Objective-C, C++ or Java. Although it is a tool full of rich features to create apps it can be challenging to get beyond the basics and build interactive and fun apps. Using this book, you can develop various apps and this book guides you through "till you upload the apps in the appstore."LiveCode Mobile Development Beginner's Guide" will explain how to create applications with the easiest, most practical cross platform framework available, Livecode Mobile and upload the apps to the appstore with minimal effort.Throughout the book, you'll learn details that will help you become a pro at mobile app development using LiveCode. You begin with simple calculator application and quickly enhance it using LiveCode Mobile. Start by learning the interface controls for videos and images of LiveCode's environment. Dig into configuring devices, building user interfaces, and making rich media applications, then finish by uploading the mobile applications to App Stores. You will learn how to build apps for devices such as iPhone, Android with the recently developed LiveCode Mobile through sample applications of increasing complexity.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
LiveCode Mobile Development Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – setting up the Text card


Start off in the test stack you made, so we can get the function working there before adding it to the WebScraper stack.

  1. Duplicate the button you made when extracting links. Change the function call getLinks to say getText - otherwise the script can remain the same.

  2. Edit the script of the test stack, and add this function:

    function getText pPageSource
       put replaceText(pPageSource,"(?:<(?P<tag>script|style)[\s\S]*?</(?P=tag)>)|(?:<!--[\s\S]*?-->)|(?:<[\s\S]*?>)","") into pPageSource
       replace lf with "" in pPageSource
       replace tab with " " in pPageSource
       return pPageSource
    end getText
  3. Try clicking on the button you just made. You should see your second field fill with just the text parts of the web page.

  4. Copy the function, and go back to the WebScraper stack script. Paste the function there.

  5. Go to the Text card of the stack, and from the MobGUI window drag a Multiline Text control onto the card. Set its name to PageText...