Setting up Animation Engine

This recipe walks you through downloading, installing, and setting up Animation Engine so that you can use it within your LiveCode mobile applications.

How to do it...

Follow the steps in this recipe so that Animation Engine is available for you within LiveCode as you develop your mobile applications:

1. Download the Animation Engine extension from the LiveCode store. You should now have the animationEngine5.1.zip compressed file on your development computer.

2. Open the animationEngine5.1.zip compressed file so that the file contents are revealed (see the following screenshot):

   

3. Open the LiveCode application package to show contents.

4. Move the animationEngine.livecode stack to the LiveCode Externals folder/directory, as shown in the following screenshot:

   

5. Open LiveCode.

6. Create a new main stack.

7. Next, open the animationEngine stack you previously downloaded to your development computer. With LiveCode already running, you can simply double-click on the animationEngine.livecode file...