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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 – taking in information about the reminder


The Reminder card makes good use of pickers. There is little typing for the user to do, and because they will pick an entry from a list that we present, there's a good chance the information won't have any typos in it!

  1. Edit the script of the Set Related Location button, and type in the following:

    on mouseUp
       global gReminderData
       put empty into tLocations
       set the itemdelimiter to tab
       put 1 into tLineNumber
       repeat with a = 1 to the number of lines in gReminderData
          if item 1 of line a of gReminderData = "Location" then
             put item 2 to 4 of line a of gReminderData into line tLineNumber of tLocations
             add 1 to tLineNumber
          end if
       end repeat
       if tLocations is empty then
          answer "You need to add a location."
       else
          mobilePick tLocations,1
          put the result into tChosenLocation
          if tChosenLocation >0 then
             put item 1 of line tChosenLocation of tLocations into field...