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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 – testing a simple stack in the simulators


Feel free to make things that are more elaborate than the ones we have made through these steps! The following instructions make an assumption that you know how to find things by yourself in the object inspector palette:

  1. Open LiveCode, create a new Mainstack, and save it someplace where it is easy to find in a moment from now.

  2. Set the card window to the size 480 x 320 and uncheck the Resizable checkbox.

  3. Drag a label field to the top-left corner of the card window and set its contents to something appropriate. Hello World might do.

  4. If you're developing on Windows, skip to step 11.

  5. Open the Standalone Application Settings dialog box, click on the iOS icon, and click on the Build for iOS checkbox.

  6. Under Orientation Options, set the iPhone Initial Orientation to Landscape Left.

  7. Close the dialog box.

  8. Navigate to the Development | Test Target submenu and choose an iPhone Simulator.

  9. Select Test from the Development menu.

  10. You should now be able to...