Am 05.11.12 03:54, schrieb J. Landman Gay:
On 11/4/12 7:21 PM, Mark Smith wrote:
This is part of the problem discussed by Chris...
documentation is fragmented and all over the place. And in a rapidly
changing environment, which LC is, it can be difficult to keep up with.
Also, what
I'd like to give a plug for Bjornke's BvG Docu 2 plugin here. It provides
much more powerful dictionary search capabilities and often turns up
references to entries which you won't find through the normal dictionary
search mechanisms.
Check it out at http://bjoernke.com/bvgdocu
Pete
lcSQL
Colin Holgate-2 wrote
You can then look in the Dictionary for entries such as
mobileCreateControl, where you see a list of the controls that can be
made:...
Colin, where is that command? I searched the LC dictionary but did not fine
anything for mobileCreateControl
Thanks
-- Mark
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I seem to be syllable dyslexic. I meant mobileControlCreate.
On Nov 4, 2012, at 7:24 PM, Mark Smith mark_sm...@cpe.umanitoba.ca wrote:
Colin, where is that command? I searched the LC dictionary but did not fine
anything for mobileCreateControl
Colin Holgate-2 wrote
I seem to be syllable dyslexic. I meant mobileControlCreate.
Thanks, no problem (create control, as an example of english like makes
more sense than control create anyway). Its interesting that the only
reference to this that I could find was in the Android Release notes
No, I'm just not that deep! I checked, I have 97 cases of create, and 27
pages where create and control appear, but no controlcreate or
createcontrol cases.
Some of these things are quite new, and you would l want to be looking in the
help and release notes for v5.5.3.
On Nov 4, 2012, at
On 11/4/12 7:21 PM, Mark Smith wrote:
This is part of the problem discussed by Chris...
documentation is fragmented and all over the place. And in a rapidly
changing environment, which LC is, it can be difficult to keep up with.
Also, what documentation is provided in the release notes is pretty
Sure you can write
a = 1
but it will be in an 'if' construction, and the result will be either true or
false. There are or were languages where the boolean equality sign was
distinguished from the assignment sign: in Algol, if I remember rightly, we
wrote
a := 1
To put 1 into a. I
Am 02.11.2012 01:18, schrieb Colin Holgate:
Well, these are early days still. A lot of the inconsistencies are where you
either have to simulate the native appearance using LiveCode controls and
tricks, or you talk to the OS and get native controls. Eventually they will
probably allow access
Christophe,
First and foremost, welcome to LiveCode and to this list. It is
welcoming to see some familiar names from the Director community! Let
me say that from a previous Director advocate, I totally understand
your frustration and sense of confusion.
LC has so many things going for it
The Help menu has entries for iOS Release Notes and Android Release Notes.
Those two have a list of the mobile features you can use, along with example
syntax. You can then look in the Dictionary for entries such as
mobileCreateControl, where you see a list of the controls that can be made:
Am 02.11.2012 15:01, schrieb Colin Holgate:
The Help menu has entries for iOS Release Notes and Android Release Notes.
Those two have a list of the mobile features you can use, along with example
syntax. You can then look in the Dictionary for entries such as
mobileCreateControl, where you
It took seven months to write the book, if I had been asked to write extra
chapters that were beyond the scope of the book (like, general LiveCode
beginner chapters), I doubt if I would have wanted to!
Some others here were writing books too. Not sure how those are coming along.
On Nov 2,
Yep, there were tons of useful Director / Lingo books. I used to buy several
per year. It was a great way to jumpstart projects and find detailed
instruction that fit your learning level. I really missed having such books
to get up to speed on LiveCode. I find the LiveCode resources are piecemeal
tbodine wrote:
Heck, I just wish the LC dictionary
would be provided in PDF file so we could print it out.
Is it just me, or is the built-in search feature of the LC dictionary quite
bad? (Example: search array and you get just 2 results, neither of which
tells you how to create or work with
Am I the only one who wants dot syntax and short assigments like
myVariable = field(foo).text
instead of the verbose syntax?
I understand that this stems from the fact that LC is really so similar to
Director. LC is what Director should have been for mobile development...
But then,didn't
On 02/11/2012 16:41, tbodine wrote:
Heck, I just wish the LC dictionary
would be provided in PDF file so we could print it out.
Is it just me, or is the built-in search feature of the LC dictionary quite
bad? (Example: search array and you get just 2 results, neither of which
tells you how to
Dot syntax has been talked about in the past, and don't forget that it's not
even just dot syntax that doesn't exist in LC, you can't even say:
a = 1
The answer given, I believe, is that they are focussing even more on making the
language human readable, and that's their target audience, not
And that is how it should be... as you say, you have lots of choice elsewhere
if you wish to use dot syntax notation. I for one am glad that livecode are
trying, but they have strayed a little, to keep the language as English like as
possible..
Dixie
Dot syntax has been talked about in
On 11/2/12 12:02 PM, i...@multimedial.de wrote:
Am I the only one who wants dot syntax and short assigments
This comes up occasionally by the three or four people who want it.
--
Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software |
to use LiveCode
Subject: Re: developing for mobile devices
On 11/2/12 12:02 PM, i...@multimedial.de wrote:
Am I the only one who wants dot syntax and short assigments
This comes up occasionally by the three or four people who want it.
--
Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac
Well it doesn't need to be mutually exclusive,does it?
Lingo does have the two modes as well - verbose and concise.
Ok I stop naming Director as a reference - although this could potentially
allure more users to LC...
Freundliche Grüße,
Christophe Leske
multimedial.de
PROFILE:
I don't think that's a bad thing. Earlier today I used LiveCode as a reference
in discussing a Director ability.
On Nov 2, 2012, at 2:58 PM, i...@multimedial.de wrote:
Ok I stop naming Director as a reference - although this could potentially
allure more users to LC...
Chris,
I'm finding Colin's book
http://www.packtpub.com/livecode-for-android-ios-mobile-development-beginners-guide/book
on LiveCode mobile dev. to be helpful.
-- Tom Bodine
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View this message in context:
1) It's MobGUI not MobileGUI, in case someone is reading this thread
later and is trying to figure out what we are talking about.
2) There are other tools as well for building mobile interfaces, such as
tmControls (http://tmtools.tactilemedia.com/tmcontrol/index.html)
3) If you are referring to
That should read all of 2012. I featured it in my book in a couple of places,
but knew that there were no updates coming before I finished writing the book.
So I added this note to one of the chapters:
LiveCode has, at the time of writing, been updated so that the features on
Android match the
Hi Colin
I finished your book,and I learned how to invoke the controls.
It is just that this all seems so inconsistent,one control is done like
this,and the other one is invoked like that...
Plus,I am missing a lot of little additional controls (how do you do a spinner
on iOS,that waiting
Well, these are early days still. A lot of the inconsistencies are where you
either have to simulate the native appearance using LiveCode controls and
tricks, or you talk to the OS and get native controls. Eventually they will
probably allow access to all of the native controls.
When do you
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