LiveCode iOS Externals & rreNarrator

[Brian Duck]

Hello World!

I'm not certain earlier my postings made the list.

I was able to join the RunRev Live conference via the virtual conference option.

By way of background, I'd developed in HyperCard to develop an Interactive Video-Disc application controlled via the Mac, way back in 1990's while pursuing a Master's in Educational Technology at SDSU. I came across revolution a few years ago, and worked with it intermittently while at Ford Motor Company. More recently I've developed in Adobe Flex from 1.5 through 4.5; but I've recently jumped back to RunRev, I'm also setup with OnRev hosting.

As for my project, I've got a working draft of a planned iPad app: it's working as a Macintosh application, I've tested in the iOS simulator, and I've been able to publish a few revisions directly to my iPad under a personal developer account.

 There are a couple issues that I'm bringing to the list:
	1) I have a group with a scrolling field, and three buttons shared throughout a stack to appear as a common background. 

This functions fine in the Mac App version, but loaded on the iPad there is ONE card that appears to function, but the text is not visible. I've removed the group from this card, and replaced it but I have the same effect with loaded to the iPad.

Thoughts on how to track this down?

2) As I mentioned, the speech synthesis is working on the desktop edition, but I need a bit of a kickstart for using the rreNarrator on the iPad. (I've located the source for the text-to-speech using 'flite,' the CMU speech synthesis project). First, it's barely mentioned on the SDK document, and I've attempted working through the example, to no avail.

The video shows part of the process, but stops short of testing a working project, or showing details on integrating the external with actual LiveCode examples. The video focuses on creating a new Xcode project for the external, but I've got a working draft and I don't see how to install the external into a functional project.

I'm not meaning to criticize, as I'm grateful to find that an external, the documentation, and samples are available, but I'm in need of a bit of guidance to get started with the text to speech external.

If those of you with experience in the rreNarrator / or general externals use, would provide some further direction on list or directly, I'd be thankful. If you have a link to an article on integrating externals with LiveCode stacks, I'd like to see it.

Brian Duck,
The DuckWorks
Plymouth, Michigan