On 3/3/11 4:35 PM, Steve Jones wrote:
Greeting!
I am a novice LiveCode user, and even more so to the iOS environment.
I used RuntimeRevolution for a bit, and before that SuperCard and
HyperCard so I am not completely lost. But I did have a question on
the best methodology to use for a project I have started working on
to use as a learning project with LiveCode iOS.
Welcome. Since you're familiar with HyperCard and SuperCard, you won't
have much trouble adjusting to LiveCode.
I work for a non-profit theatre and am attempting to build an iPhone
app for them. My question concerns the best way to update content.
Some sections of the app will be static info. But other sections,
like UPCOMING EVENTS the content will change as new events are added
and old ones go past. This could probably be done via app updates,
but I doubt that will be timely enough. So I am wondering if there is
a way that content (such as text and small images) can be pulled up
via the internet and inserted into a "layout" in the app? I know I
can load a web page thru the app, but then I have to maintain a web
page AND an app. It would be great to have just the pieces I need to
update pulled offline and "inserted" into the app. I know this would
be problematic for those w/ no internet access.
Is this doable? Even allowed by Apple? Any recommendation on how to
get started on such a section?
Perfectly doable, and even pretty easy. If I were doing this, I'd have a
field for the changeable data (or several fields, depending on what you
need) and then I would grab a text file off a server. Parse the text if
you need to divide it up for display in different places, or else just
dump the whole thing into a field.
Say you've got an events list, for example, with one event per line in a
text file, and you want to put that text into a field in your app called
"events". You can do it in one line:
put url ("http://www.myserver.com/textfile.txt";) into fld "events"
I don't know what exactly Apple allows, but I'd be surprised if
something like this was forbidden.
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Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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