developing for mobile devices

[Christophe Leske]

Am 02.11.2012 15:01, schrieb Colin Holgate:
> The Help menu has entries for iOS Release Notes and Android Release Notes. Those two have a list of the mobile features you can use, along with example syntax. You can then look in the Dictionary for entries such as mobileCreateControl, where you see a list of the controls that can be made:

Hi,

what is even more confusing is that there are native iOS controls, PLUS 
the native LC "motif" controls (which I have never seen on iOS before, 
although they must have been there all the time since iOS is based on 
Unix).

Thanks for the list, but this isn't extensive, right?

Sorry, but I got lots of questions related to these as well. For 
instance, I wanted to create a multi-line label field for my app (some 
explaination texts).

I got at least three different options (which, btw, do all work on iOS, 
in the sense that they produce a readable text):

- a standard LC label taken from the tool palette

- a MobGUI Label field (which doesn't seem to offer support for 
multiline text? Also, I want a translucent background...)

- a MobGUI multiline Field (which however, does not get destroyed when I 
"switch" between cards. There is this option for "auto destroying" the 
field, but it does not seem to do any difference to me? I am really 
missing more elaborate documentation on the MobGUI elements - this is 
the only page i got so far http://mobgui.com/docs.php and it is not very 
detailled... but at least it provides the properties one can set by 
scripting.

> About the book, yes, it is meant for people who already know LiveCode and want to know more about mobile development. I did add in the unrequested first chapter, to try to get other people an insight to how LiveCode works, but I had to leave it at that, and hope that people would follow the links to lessons.livecode.com that I put in there.

Hu? Why would want someone to cut content from an electronic publication? I mean, it doesn't cost them anything to add more pages to it?

-- 
Christophe Leske
multimedial.de

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