Problem simulating a location

[Graham Samuel]

Folks, I am still struggling with this. Alan Stenhouse has been kind enough to help me, but so far I have not got the simulator to simulate any kind of location information.

There is a function, mobileCurrentLocation, that is supposed to return an array provided tracking is enabled and mobileSensorAvailable(“location”) has been invoked (see the LC Dictionary). I have made sure that both these things have  been done, but In my tests on the simulator the array appears to be empty.

I suppose I can try the test on a real phone, but I would rather stick to the simulator for now. And I haven’t found out how LC knows I’ve got a provisioning profile (separate problem I admit).

Has anyone got any idea what’s going wrong?

Puzzled.

Graham

> On 13 Apr 2020, at 14:38, Graham Samuel <livfoss at mac.com> wrote:
> 
> I’m trying to use the 10.2 XCode simulator to test an iOS app that uses the phone’s ability to know its location (usually via GPS). I can run the simulation and show that it’s working in a general way. Furthermore, mobileSensorAvailable("location”) responds in the simulated app, saying the sensor is ‘authorizedWhenInUse’
> 
> However the following button handler - adapted from a lesson by Devin Asay (very sincere thanks for all that, Devin!) always returns an empty result. I have set the location in the simulator to a (genuine) custom location, but if I choose one of the built-in locations, I still get the same result.
> 
>  On mouseUp
>    mobileStartTrackingSensor "location” -- enable the sensor first
>    put "now trying to get a one-off location reading" & return after fld “TheReport"
>    put mobileSensorReading("location",false) into tSensorData -- this returns a string with the current latitude, longitude and altitude
>    mobileStopTrackingSensor “location” -- turn off the sensor when done
>    if tSensorData is empty then
>        put "no location info!!" & return after fld "TheReport"
>    else
>        put tSensorData & return after fld "TheReport"
>   end if
> end mouseUp
> 
> 
> Of course it’s me, but what am I doing wrong?
> 
> Graham