On 09/12/15 18:17, Mike Kerner wrote:
Has anyone attempted to built an interface using an external tool, say
Sketch, for instance? If so, what have you done to make the areas active?
For my Devawriter Pro, PISMO and Grendel I used GIMP to make the
graphic components and then assembled them in LiveCode.
I wanted my program to look the same regardless of which platform
it was deployed on, and regardless of any theme-y add-ons; and as
LiveCode buttons do 'mutate' depending on which platform they are
on I made a lot of stuff externally as images.
This is obviously not building a whole interface externally, although
stage 2 involved mocking it up in GIMP [stage 1 involved drawing silly
pictures on paper with lots of coloured pencils].
As LiveCode is capable of a lot of graphic stuff such as drop shadows,
after importing
images into LiveCode I messed around quite a bit with drop shadows, internal
and external glows, and so forth, to get the effect I desired, grouped
the finished
image and imported a snapshot of the group as a new image.
Doing this guaranteed that the images would remain the way I intended them
to look regardless of where they ended up.
Obviously, the way I did things, I made graphic areas of my interface active
once everything was assembled in LiveCode.
Richmond.
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