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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 native controls from MobGUI


Right-click on the little image of the iPhone in the MobGUI window, and make sure that you're on the Native iOS Controls set.

  1. Go to the Email card and drag three Text controls and one Multiline Text control from the Native iOS Controls set in the MobGUI window.

  2. Name the Text controls as To, CC, and Subject, and the Multiline Text control as Body. The size of the Body should be made big enough to enter a few lines of text.

  3. As you create each field, note that you can set the keyboard type. Set it to Email for the To and CC fields.

  4. From iOS Controls 1 set and drag two Buttons onto the card window. Name one Done, and the other Send. You should have something that looks like the following screenshot:

  5. When we test the app and touch one of the fields, the keyboard overlay will appear. We'll use the Done button as a way to hide the keyboard. Add a focus line to the touchEnd handler of the Done button script:

    on touchEnd pId
       mobGUIUntouch the long...
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