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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 – getting started with MobGUI


As with other add-ons to LiveCode, MobGUI will need to be installed into the LiveCode plugins folder. On Windows that will be My Documents/My LiveCode/Plugins. On Mac it will be ~/Documents/My LiveCode/Plugins.

  1. Download the latest version of MobGUI from http://mobgui.com/download.php.

  2. The zip file will expand to become a LiveCode stack, named revMobGUI.livecode.

  3. Drag the stack into the plugins folder, and reopen LiveCode.

  4. Make a new Maintstack.

  5. From the Development menu, choose Plugins/revMobGUI. This window will appear:

  6. The first of the icons is the splash screen, and the last five icons are for things such as registering, support, and getting updates. Click on the second icon, the one that looks like a play button. You will see this arrangement:

  7. The MobGUI window is much like a combination of the LiveCode Tool and Inspector palettes.

  8. Try dragging different items onto the card, and look at the options for each item.

  9. Right-click on the iPhone image,...

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