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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 – making a map of the United States


There are plenty of places online to get public domain images to use in your applications. Search for public domain images and you will see links to Wikipedia articles, government sites, and other sites that let you download images that are free to use. The map shown in the following steps came from the file at:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/Blank_US_Map.svg.

  1. Make a new field named states. Find an alphabetical list of the 50 united states to paste it into the field or you can type them in!

  2. Make another field, set the text size to 24, and the size of the field wide enough for New Hampshire to fit in (just the words, not the entire state!). Name the field state.

    Tip

    Download the completed map

    Note that you can save a lot of work here by downloading the us-map.png file from the support file section for this book, which you can find at www.PacktPub.com.

  3. If you have Adobe Illustrator, open the SVG file with it. If not, open...