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LiveCode Mobile Development Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   LiveCode Mobile Development Beginner's Guide With this book and your basic programming knowledge, you'll find it easy to use LiveCode to create mobile apps for Android and iOS. A great starting point for taking the app store by storm.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849692489
Length 246 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Colin Holgate Colin Holgate
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

LiveCode Mobile Development Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. LiveCode Fundamentals 2. Getting Started with LiveCode Mobile FREE CHAPTER 3. Building User Interfaces 4. Using Remote Data and Media 5. Making a Jigsaw Puzzle Application 6. Making a Reminder Application 7. Deploying to Your Device Extending LiveCode Pop Quiz Answers Index

Time for action – adding the browser controls


Return to the first card of the stack, and find your way to the native controls part of the MobGUI window.

  1. Drag the Browser control onto the card window. It's the one with the thumbnail showing Google's search page.

  2. Resize the control to fill the width of the card, and its height to fit between the tab bar and a little way below the NavBar. Give it the name Browser.

  3. With the browser control selected, check the box in the MobGUI window titled Auto destroy on closeCard. This will help reduce the memory usage of the final app during the times you're not on the browser card.

  4. Drag a native Text control into the gap between the browser control and the NavBar. Name it url, and resize it to be nearly as wide as the card, leaving space for a Go button on the right.

  5. Drag a Button control into that space, set its label to Go, and resize it to look nice. You can Option/Alt-double-click to have it space itself a standard distance from the right of the card window...

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