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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 – creating date and time pickers


Let's make another test-rig stack, which we'll use to try out some date and time pickers:

  1. Create a new Mainstack, name it ReminderFunctions, and save the stack.

  2. Add two fields and two new buttons.

  3. Name one field dateinseconds and the other timeinseconds.

  4. Name the buttons as Pick Date and Pick Time.

  5. Set the script of the Pick Date button to this:

    on mouseUp
      mobilePickDate date
      put the result into tDate
      convert tDate to seconds
      put tDate into field "dateinseconds"
    end mouseUp
  6. Set the Pick Time button script to this:

    on mouseUp
      mobilePickDate "time"
      put the result into tTime
      convert tTime to seconds
      put tTime into field timeinseconds
    end mouseUp
  7. Set the Standalone Application Settings so that you can test on iOS or Android.

  8. Choose your Test Target (in the following steps, you can see that the iPhone simulator was chosen in this case) and do a Test.

  9. Click on the Pick Date button.

  10. Select December 25th, 2012 and click on Done.

  11. The number of...