Using DropBox for Faster Mobile Development

[Michael Doub]

I am trying to take your concept and make it a bit more generic but I feel like I must be in the Friday blues.
I am stuck on syntax or I am loosing my mind.  Probably the latter.  ;-)

Rather than go to the stack directly I wanted to pick up the url from the first line of a text file so it is
easy to switch stacks.  Sounds easy enough but its is not working!  The correct URL is in fact in the StacktoLoad variable.
What am I missing in the syntax?  

on mouseUp
   put URL "http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4379494/LiveCode/LoadLinks" into list
   put  line 1 of list into StacktoLoad
   go URL StacktoLoad
end mouseUp

-= Mike


On 02/11/2012, at 8:32 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:

> This may already be old news, but I thought I'd throw it out there in case
> this helps someone...  If you're already using your DropBox account to help
> speed up your mobile development process, read no farther.
> 
> I've been developing stacks for iOS use on and off over the last year, and
> have been annoyed with the bottleneck process of building standalones,
> uploading them to the device, launching the test app on the device, finding
> everything that doesn't work, and then starting the whole process over every
> time I make a change.  Even using the simulator just takes too long and is
> sometimes inaccurate compared to running on a real device.  So I wondered if
> I could save some time using LC's "go url xyz..." ability to access a stack
> remotely with DropBox.  And it actually works perfectly.
> 
> First I loaded my dev stack to my Public DropBox folder, and right-clicked
> on the stack to get its DropBox address.
> 
> Then I built a simple mobile standalone that contains a single button with
> the script:
> go url "http://dl.dropbox.com/path_to_my_stack.livecode"
> 
> After uploading the simple standalone *one time* to my mobile device, I
> launch the simple standalone, press the button, and my dev stack appears on
> my device within a couple of seconds.  With the original stack open on my
> desktop system (saved in DropBox), I save any changes, relaunch the simple
> standalone on the mobile device, and press the button to immediately see my
> changes.  No uploading or file transfers are needed.  I do this for all the
> mobile devices I want to test on -- as soon as I save the dev stack in my
> DropBox, all my testing devices have immediate access to it.
> 
> I haven't tried this on Android yet, but I assume it will wok the same.
> This process has saved me a significant amount of time and sanity -- maybe
> it will for you.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director
> Tactile Media, UX Design
> 
> 
> 
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