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Hi,

Beginning developing with LiveCode, I find that it is very difficult to start with.

I just started a very small application, putting some buttons and one image, with a background. When I launch the app in the simulator:

- the image appears as it is original size, not resized size
- the buttons are ugly (in LiveCode, I choosed the "Rectangle Button")
- the font is not the correct one (I choosed "Marion Italic" in LiveCode, the font on the Ipad simulator is not italic).

To sum up: what I have in the simulator is not at all what I am seeing in LiveCode.

I know that there is a big learning curve with LiveCode, but I don't even know where should I look to find solutions. For the Iphone/Ipad, I just see the "hello world" example.

best regards

Are you using MOBGUI? If not try it. You can't assume that a font that you can use on the desktop will be available in IOS.

Hi,

Unfortunately, LiveCode generates an ugly motif UI for the iPhone. I cannot comment that properly if I want to remain politically correct

Be careful, do not buy MobGui, as it totally lacks support (see various posts on this forum). Great add-on, but the developer seems to have more important tasks than respecting his customers.

You can try it for free, apparently with no time limit, but with a splash screen.

I am still wondering if LiveCode can be used to generate apps using standard iOS UI.

Of course, if MobGUI developer comes back with a new version and support, that will be another story…

Amazing this native lack of the basic elements for iOS.

Furthermore, it is very hard to quickly set up a nice button... As the gradient option does not exist for buttons!

I've been using tmControl for the past weeks now, and I'm very happy with it.
(Note that I've nothing to do with the company, I just love their product and support)

Theo,

Could you explain a little more, please?

Did you buy the pro version or only the standard iOS theme?

You can use graphics to get interesting looks using gradients and the graphic affects then once you get the look you want for your button grab a snapshot of it and set the icon of the button to the id of the image you just created. You can create several modes for the button this way (or use an external program to create button images) then set an icon for each button state. (in the button inspector, you can see what states can be set on the icons and border pane) You'll want to set the button to transparent and depending on your needs you might want to set it so that it doesn't show its name. (or label if there is one)

Of course if you knew this and "quickly" was the most operative term then yeah, its not super fast (especially for a person like me who has no design talent!) but it does work and can make nice looking buttons. YOu can also just use image objects and swap in the image data wish to use for each state using code.

set the text of image "mybuttonimage" to the text of image "myClickedTemplate" -- where myclickedtemplate is an imported image that looks like a button being clicked.

For anyone thats interested there is more information on skinning here: http://www.runrev.com/developers/lesson ... -skinning/ not ios specific, and the stack skinning part of the lesson doesn't really apply but the button skinning surely does.

ju11 wrote:Amazing this native lack of the basic elements for iOS.

Furthermore, it is very hard to quickly set up a nice button... As the gradient option does not exist for buttons!