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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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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 links card's init handler


Before proceeding, make sure that you are happy with the functions in the test stack and that you have copied them to the WebScraper stack script using the following steps:

  1. Go to the Links card of the WebScraper stack.

  2. Edit the card script and add these global variables and init function:

    global gPageHTML,gLinks
    
    on init
    if the platform is "iphone" or the platform is "android" then
      put getLinks(gPageHTML) into gLinks
      if the number of lines in gLinks = 0 then
         answer "There are no links in this page!"
      else
         mobilePick gLinks,0
         if the result > 0 then
          put the result into tLinkLine
          put line tLinkLine of gLinks into tLink
          go card "Browser"
          set the mgText of group "url" to tLink
          set the Text of field "NavBar" to "Browser"
          mobileControlSet "Page", "url", the mgText of group "url"
          end if
        end if
      end if
    end init
  3. Do a Test of the app.

  4. In the iPhone Simulator or Android device, if...

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