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LiveCode Mobile Development Cookbook

By : Dr. Edward Lavieri
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LiveCode Mobile Development Cookbook

By: Dr. Edward Lavieri

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
LiveCode Mobile Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Loading an image


Loading an image to a LiveCode stack is straightforward. In this recipe, you will learn how to load an image from the mobile device's photo library.

How to do it...

This recipe provides details on how to load an image from a mobile device's library.

Use the following code to prompt the user to select an image from their device's image library:

on mouseUp
  mobilePickPhoto "library"
  if the result is empty then 
    // do something
  end if
end mouseUp

Note

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How it works...

For both iOS and Android devices, we can use the mobilePickPhoto command to prompt the user to select an image from their device's image library. We accomplish this by passing library as the parameter. Our code included...