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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 – making the location card work


The Location card has three fields in it, for latitude, longitude, and a title for the location. The user could well type in the details manually, but if they happen to be at the location in question there's a button there to grab the location and to fill in the numbers automatically.

  1. Edit the script of the Set to Current Location button, and type in the following lines:

    on mouseUp
       mobileStartTrackingSensor "location", true
       put mobileSensorReading("location", false) into tLocation
       mobileStopTrackingSensor "location"
       set the itemdelimiter to comma
       if the number of items in tLocation = 3 then
          put item 1 of tLocation into field "latitude"
          put item 2 of tLocation into field "longitude"
       end if
    end mouseUp
  2. Nothing too tricky there, the location is grabbed and the latitude and longitude entries are stored in the two fields.

  3. Edit the script of the Cancel button, and change it to this easy script:

    on mouseUp
       go to card ...
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