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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 – creating date and time pickers


Make another test-rig stack, which we'll use to try out some date and time pickers.

  1. Create a new Mainstack, name it ReminderFunctions, and save the stack.

  2. Add two fields and two buttons.

  3. Name one field dateinseconds and the other timeinseconds.

  4. Name the buttons Pick Date and Pick Time.

  5. Set the script of the Pick Date button to the following:

    on mouseUp
       mobilePickDate "date"
       put the result into tDate
       convert tDate to seconds
       put tDate into field "dateinseconds"
    end mouseUp
  6. Set the Pick Time button script to this:

    on mouseUp
       mobilePickDate "time"
       put the result into tTime
       convert tTime to seconds
       put tTime into field "timeinseconds"
    end mouseUp
  7. Set the Standalone Application Settings, so that you can test on iOS or Android.

  8. Choose your Test Target (in this case, you can see that iPhone Simulator was chosen as the target), and do a test.

  9. Click on the Pick Date button.

  10. Select December 25th, 2012, and click on Done.

  11. The number of...