1001 things to do with LiveCode - only 400 page views per day

[Peter W A Wood]

Hi Alastair

I've just prepared the entry about your trivia app for 1001 things to do with LiveCode. I've taken a little "poetic licence" to avoid mentioning trivial pursuits and to cut it down a little (to fit into the blog style). 

Let me know if anything needs changing.

It should go out within a couple of weeks.

Cheers

Peter

On 21 Feb 2013, at 07:25, planix wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Last week I organised a trivia party with friends. We have been having a
> trivial pursuit championship over the last 12 months. Having organised the
> party I discovered that my electronic doo-hickey from the Trivia Pursuit
> publishers is no longer supported so I couldn't add any more questions. What
> to do? Well, if you have Livecode the answer is a bit obvious. Write my own.
> That's what I did. It's not flash and it's not fancy. But, it took me about
> a day to write an interface that allows me to upload trivia questions from a
> text document and then select categories of question to ask during the game.
> It's pretty much just an electronic pack of trivia pursuit cards.
> 
> The most interesting thing for me was that in that day of Livecoding I
> decided that this really needed to be delivered as a mobile app. I have not
> used Livecode for mobile development before so I thought this might be a
> really big ask. In fact, this was incredibly easy. I still have to work on
> resizing routines and I know I'm actually going to enjoy this tedious task
> because Livecode is such an easy environment to play around in.
> 
> So, right now, I have a working Android app that sits on my phone. If I
> spend a few more hours I know that I will have the same app prepared for
> deployment on devices with different screen sizes. And a few more hours and
> I will have developed a more efficient data management process as well.
> Given that I am not a professional programmer this has really only been
> possible because Livecode makes the task of developing application logic so
> straightforward.
> 
> Here is a screenshot of the app- on my Windows machine. Not sure how to get
> a screenshot of it running on my phone.
> trviaApp.png
> <http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/file/n4660827/trviaApp.png>  
> 
> cheers
> 
> Alistair Campbell
> (Australia)
> 
> 
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