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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 – using the Geometry Manager to position buttons


Now we'll add some buttons to the stack we have going. One thing to know: the layout features in MobGUI (that we will look at next) are in competition with the Geometry Manager, so if you still have that open from earlier, click on the check box that says "Disable auto geometry.

  1. Take the first four buttons and duplicate them, to give another set of four below the first ones.

  2. Select the first of the new buttons and in the Geometry section of the Inspector palette click once on the vertical bar, and twice on the horizontal bar, ending with the state shown in the screenshot.

  3. Do the same for the other three buttons.

  4. Try resizing the card window.

What just happened?

That was quite a quick test, and if all went well you will see that resizing the card window is positioning the first four buttons using the resizeStack handler we added, and positioning the second set of four buttons using the Geometry Manager. With the settings we used,...

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