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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 – 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 goes 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.

  1. Open the Stack script.

  2. Type in 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 putting the keyboard away. However, that isn't the case on iOS; 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 this issue, we set the Return button to say Done, which will lead the user to expect the keyboard to go...

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