Writing text

When coding mobile applications, you might have the need to write text to the screen or external files, such as displaying a level completion message or posting a new high score on a leaderboard. In this recipe, you will learn how to write text to the screen of a mobile device.

How to do it...

Follow the steps in this recipe to write text on the user's screen:

1. Create a new main stack in LiveCode.

2. Add a label field to the card with the following properties:

   • Name: userInput

   • Width: 300

   • foregroundColor: Yellow

   • Align text left

   • Size of text: 18

3. Add the following code to the card:

   on openCard
     put the long date & tab & the long time into fld "userInput"
   end openCard

4. Run the app in the mobile simulator. Your results should be similar to what is displayed in the following screenshot:

   

How it works...

In this recipe, we used the put command to put data on the screen using a text field. The same command can be used to put data in objects such as buttons, text fields, and so on.

See also

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