Displaying mixed text and images in iOS app

Todd Fabacher tfabacher at gmail.com
Sat Dec 26 09:54:46 EST 2015


Hi Richard,

We had the same issue, but we needed to actually edit the documents. If you
just need to display, HTML is the way to go. I suggest you use Base64 to
put the image in the HTML so there are no possible broken links. It is easy
to do. Plus, the HTML proved to be more flexible for mobile devices in that
you can control the layout easily using just a little CSS and make them
responsive.

Do you need to edit the document at all?  We also needed to edit the docs,
so again we turned to the browser using a wysiwyg html editor. We selected
https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor, but there are several on the market.
Send me an email if you want the sample HTML editor code in LiveCode. I
think this will get MUCH better with the new browser widget in LC8 because
you will be able to get full messaging between your app and the browser on
mobile.

For those that are interested in charts+graphics+dashboards we are also
going web for this one. We have just started looking to wrap D3.js with a
LiveCode wrapper and will use "inheritance" of the browser widget in LC 8
to offer the full features of D3 which is incredible! Because we need both
online and mobile, we think this is the best option. LiveCode HTML5 will
not give us the speed we need.

--Todd



More information about the use-livecode mailing list