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I'm sure I'm missing something VERY obvious but LiveCode 5.5 is not allowing me to test. I only have the trial version but I don't think that is the problem. Even after I have saved the changes to a stack it still has the "*" next to the name and the testing buttons are "greyed out", or unclickable. What am I doing wrong?

Thanks!

Hi.

Not sure what you mean when you say "testing buttons".

The asterisk will stay until you set the title of the stack, as opposed to its name.

Craig Newman

The test button only applies to mobile platforms. You need to have the development environment for whichever platform you want to test on installed and configured on your machine, set up livecode to point to the dev environment (in preferences) get your devices and/or simulator recognized in livecode, and then change the standalone settings for your app to point at whichever platform you want to develop for. If you are just developing for and testing on the desktop, the test buttons aren't used, and you are 'testing' the whole time you are developing. Changes are active and live as you make them in the ide.

The reason there is an * in the title bar of your stack is because it is referring to the stackname and you have no stack title. If you set a stack title, that will show instead and there will be no *

If you are trying to get set up to test on IOS or android, you might check the ios/android specific forums as well as looking here http://lessons.runrev.com/m/4069 The link takes you to the mobile development lessons that should get you started.

And the final part, i'm not sure what affect running the trial has as far as testing on mobile devices, so someone else will need to answer that part.

Thanks very much for the replies, it works now, it was just me being a noob!

Hi Tom,

do you know about these great stacks here?
http://www.runrev.com/developers/lesson ... nferences/


Best

Klaus