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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 stack-level functions


For this app, we're going to put some of the logic in the buttons on the cards themselves, but it still leaves a good amount that will have to go into the Stack script. To make it less overwhelming, we'll show one or two functions at a time followed by some explanation about any interesting points in the following steps:

  1. Open the Stack script.

  2. Type in the the following handlers:

    on openstack
      if the platform is "iphone" then iPhoneSetKeyboardReturnKey "done"
      readdata
      showdata
    end openstack
    
    on returnInField
      focus on nothing
    end returnInField

    Note

    Android OS keyboards generally have a button dedicated to the function putting the keyboard away. On iOS, this isn't the case, as the button that sits where the Return key should be, may have a special word instead, such as Send, or Done. Unfortunately, we are entering text into fields that are able to take a return character. To solve the issue, we set the Return button to say Done, which will lead...

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