Displaying mixed text and images in iOS app

[Richard Miller]

Hi Todd,

Thanks for that information.

Looks like displaying our PDFs in a simple browser object works fine. It's easy to convert the word docs over to PDF, and they seem to be displaying perfectly. The PDFs appear seamlessly in the app. We have no need for editing of these documents once they are in the app.

The only problem that remains is that I can't get pinch and zoom to work. I will post the code here in the near future. Perhaps someone knows what needs adjusting.

Richard Miller


> 
> 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
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