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LiveCode Mobile Development Beginner's Guide (2nd Edition)

You're reading from   LiveCode Mobile Development Beginner's Guide (2nd Edition) Create interactive mobile apps for Android and iOS with LiveCode

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2015
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ISBN-13 9781849699655
Length 256 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Colin Holgate Colin Holgate
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Joel W Gerdeen Joel W Gerdeen
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. LiveCode Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Started with LiveCode Mobile 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 A. Extending LiveCode 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. The following steps will guide you through it:

  1. Drag the Browser control on the card window.

  2. Resize the control to fill the width of the card and resize the control so that its height fits between the tab bar and a little way below the NavBar. Give it the name Page.

  3. With the browser control selected, make sure that the box in the MobGUI window titled Auto delete is checked. This will help reduce the memory usage of the final app during the times you're not on the browser card.

  4. From the MobGUI window, drag an Input 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 the Go button on the right.

  5. Drag a Button control into that space, set its label to Go, and resize it to look nice.

  6. Edit the script of the Go button (which as you may notice, is really a group)...

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