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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 – adding Stack level functions


For this app, we're going to put some of the logic in the buttons on the cards themselves, but it still leaves a good amount that goes into the Stack script. To make it less overwhelming, we'll show one or two functions at a time followed by some explanation about any interesting points.

  1. Open the Stack script.

  2. Type in the following handlers:

    on openstack
       if the platform is "iphone" then iPhoneSetKeyboardReturnKey "done"
       readdata
       showdata
    end openstack
    
    on returnInField
       focus on nothing
    end returnInField

    Note

    Android OS keyboards generally have a button dedicated to putting the keyboard away. However, that isn't the case on iOS; the button that sits where the Return key should be may have a special word instead, such as Send, or Done. Unfortunately, we are entering text into fields that are able to take a return character. To solve this issue, we set the Return button to say Done, which will lead the user to expect the keyboard to go...