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 to all of the native controls.
Ok, so what I am now after would be ideally a table with all available
UI elements on iOS (by iOS version number), and how to invoke these (if
possible) in LC.
Is there such thing? If not, should we build one (by "we" I mean people
on this list).
I can do the "building" part (putting together the table - screenshots
of the elements and how to get them), but I definetely would need help
for the programming part of things, as I don't know how to invoke these.
When you debug your iOS applications - do you do this mainly in LC
itself, in the iOS simulator, or the real physical device?
When do you have to write your book review by? Will it just appear in Germany?
There was no timeframe. I am done with it though, and wanted to write
the review this weekend.
The book itself is pretty complete (for its compact amount of pages),
and well structured.
It is however not aimed at the absolute beginner. It does give you a
good overview on how to get a testing and debugging enivronment set up,
but no in-depth introduction to LiveCode and which commands are
generally available, and then available or useable on iOS/Android.
It is a head first introduction to mobile development. It is definetely
better than no book at all, but left me (a beginner in LC) with a lot of
questions (namely on how to invoke all the other UI elements in iOS not
mentioned in the text, and how to configure them).
I will contact Kraig - my understanding was that I am supposed to write
the review and hand it to him? And/or eventually publish it on Amazon.
I would give it a 4 out of 5 stars - the structure of it is excellent
(step by step instructions, general layout structure for each chapter,
screenshots, lots of additional links, etc), yet there could be a bit
more information and content in it... :-)
I could have read on after the last chapter about more advanced
techniques like XML parsing for instance, or database connectivity, or
network testing, or scrolling content panes...
But this is more related to custom extensions (and how to work with
them) instead of LC itself, i give you that. Then again, this is how
mobile development works for the time being, and therefore should be
part of the book.
To put it otherwise:
the book teaches you about the "how" part of mobile development
"know-how", yet not (enough) about the "know" part of it. MobGUI is
mentioned, as well as mergExt, yet not how to work with the most
important ones of these...
One of the main disappointments after having bought my LC license was
indeed to learn, that for most of the parts I am NOT invoking original
UI widgets, but am mostly "recreating" them from identically looking
graphics - this complicates if not prohibits the creation of
multi-language applications.
Also, no word on how to create unified apps for the iPhone and iPad (by
the way, any info on that available somehwere? I reckon it needs at
least two main stacks for the different screen sizes and layouts?).
And finally:
if you add an lcext to your project, won't LiveCode complain about new
command words it cannot understand that you put into the code in order
to invoke the functions in the extensions? I am an old time Director
user, and Lingo would always complain if it would encounter a command in
lingo it couldn't figure out.
Long post, I know, but I must go for the rest of the day,
--
Christophe Leske
multimedial.de
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