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LiveCode Mobile Development Cookbook

By : Dr. Edward Lavieri
Book Image

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

Using a navigational button


In this recipe, you will create two navigational buttons to switch between cards.

Getting ready

Before using this recipe, you will need to have the MobGUI plugin downloaded and installed on your development computer. See the Setting up MobGUI recipe discussed earlier in this chapter.

How to do it...

Use the steps in this recipe to create a navigational button that will be placed on a navigational bar of a mobile app:

  1. Create a new main stack in LiveCode.

  2. Change the name of the stack's card to Home using the property inspector.

  3. From the Development menu, navigate to Plugins | revMobGUI.

  4. Click on the play button, shown in the following screenshot, from the icons on the MobGUI interface:

  5. Drag the icon from the MobGUI interface to the Home card. This will result in a group being added to the card.
  6. Click on the new NavBar group so that it is selected.

  7. In the MobGUI interface, change the name of the NavBar group to Navigational Bar.

  8. In the MobGUI interface, change the label of...