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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 – using MobGUI to make a test bed app


As you work in LiveCode starting new stacks, closing others, and opening previously saved stacks, these actions can still occupy memory. Sometimes, you can get in a confused state where you're making a new Untitled stack only to find out there's still an Untitled stack on the go, which you're asked about if you want to purge. So, why not treat yourself to a quit and start a fresh launch of LiveCode! The following steps will help you achieve that:

  1. Create a new Mainstack. Set the name to MGTestBed and save it somewhere you can easily find it. Perhaps, in the folder with the LCTestBed stack, which was feeling lonely!

  2. Open the MobGUI window by selecting Development/Plugins/revMobGUI.

  3. In the MobGUI window's page of controls, select the Slider resizes box and move the slider to select a size of 320x480. This is the size of the original iPhone. Note the other sizes available. The card can also be resized with the LiveCode Inspector.

  4. Select the MobGUI...