Late to the party

Richmond richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Wed Dec 31 13:18:42 EST 2014


On 31/12/14 19:32, Michael Doub wrote:
> Here is how I hack around with all mobile development.  I take 
> advantage of Dropbox and it works great.
>
> You need to build a single application using the appropriate 
> development tools (apple or android), Copy the app to the device using 
> the USB one time.
>
> Create a directory in dropbox for all of your stacks then create an 
> Index.txt file that contains the dropbox links to each stack. The 
> Index.txt file has a dropbox link as the first item and  a program 
> title as the second item.  You need to make sure that dropbox link 
> uses the dl. format above.    In the datagrid, just hide the link field.
>
> When you run the app, it reads the dropbox index and when you double 
> clink on a program title it loads the associated stack.
>
> I do the programming on a PC, save the stack, then pick up the mobile 
> device and text.   I skip the whole simulator step, but that is just 
> my preference.
>
> Here is whole app, it is a biggie ...
>
> on opencard
>    set itemdel to tab
>    put url "https://dl.dropbox.com/s/555555/Index.txt" into AppList
>    set the dgText of grp "AppPicker" to Applist
> end opencard
>
> on mousedoubleup
>    set the itemdel to tab
>    put the dgHilitedLines of grp "AppPicker" into tLine
>    put the dgDataOfLine[tLine] of grp "AppPicker" into tData
>    put tData["theLink"] into tURL
>    go to URL tURL
> end mousedoubleup
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Regards,
>    Mike

Super, Thank you very much.

Richmond.

>
>
>
> On 12/31/14 11:16 AM, Richmond wrote:
>> No, not the New Year party!
>>
>> My younger son flew to Doha about 3 years ago to some daft sports 
>> conference
>> financed by the sheikhs out there as part of their attempts to buy 
>> respectability.
>>
>> Anyway, at one point one of the al-Thani "lot" gave my son an iPad 1 
>> (my younger
>> son is a bit "like that" - people keep giving him things).
>>
>> Now at the University of Pennsylvania, my son has found that between 
>> his MacBook
>> and is iPhone he no longer needs his iPad: so it ends up with 
>> Bottom-Feeder No.1 in
>> our family: Me.
>>
>> ---------------------------
>>
>> Having Jail-broken it and generally mucked around with it . . .
>>
>> I wonder how to get an iOS standalone onto the machine "down a cable"
>> as I should like to try out one or two of my programs that way before 
>> I contemplate
>> anything expensive . . . .
>>
>> I would be grateful for any advice.
>>
>> Richmond.
>>
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