Create Portable Executable of LC IDE and my app

[makeshyft]

Dear Geniuses,

Livecode has a bug that makes my app useless as a standalone. Its being worked on, but we have to wait basically another month before a stable release minus this bug is available. Everything works fine in the IDE however... so I wanted to engage some of my beta users by creating a "portable" version of livecode IDE and my app ....

My question is, is it possible to launch a stack inside the IDE and hide the development tools on startup?....I'm going to attempt to create a portable app .... I can't wait another month to start testing, and do not wish to ask my beta users to install livecode IDE.

Any thoughts on this ?

Thanks,

Tom

[zaxos]

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on hideLCStacks
   put "revTools","revMenubar","revProjectBrowser" into theStacks
   repeat for each item theStack in theStacks
      if the visible of stack theStack then
         hide stack theStack
      end if
   end repeat
end hideLCStacks

you can put this in your openStack script, also if you are using livecode 8 i think project Browser has a different name.
EDIT: its "revIDEProjectBrowser" for livecode 8

[zaxos]

Just out of curiosity, what is the bug?

[Thierry]

Any thoughts on this ?

There is an option "suspend development tools" in menu "Development"

Should not be too complicate to find the command sent behind.

Then, build a small plugin which starts during LC IDE startup and send the message found above.

There is still this little stack "Restore tools" to hide.

I've never done that, but as you said: Any thoughts on this ?

HTH and good luck.

Thierry

[FourthWorld]

There is still this little stack "Restore tools" to hide.

I've never done that, but as you said: Any thoughts on this ?

The next version of my devolution toolkit extends the Hide Tools button to include all IDE stuff, including the "Restore IDE" stack - it uses:

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 set the vis of stack "revRestore" to false
revIDESuspendDevelopmentTools

The first line makes sure the Restore stack isn't visible, and the second is the IDE call to get everything else out of the way.

If you need to restore the IDE environment you can do the reverse:

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 revIDERestoreDevelopmentTools
set the vis of stack "revRestore" to true

[Thierry]

Hi Tom,

With a fresh mind in an early sunny morning...

Here is a tool I'm using since more than a year: lcxcode

In simple words,
I get rid of *all* the stacks of the Edinburgh LC IDE and write my own home.rev stack.

This is the smallest IDE I've seen so far, and the fun is: with almost no GUI.
All the user interface is done in Xcode.

This allows me when coding any external in Xcode, with *one* simple keyboard shortcut,
to compile the external, build the LiveCode standalone of my Test stack, install it on y iPad,
launch it, starts it and then I can start testing it within an Xcode debugger session.
All this process is pretty fast, and much more convenient than using the simulator.

Therefore, in your case, you could take the same approach and build your own
which starts your stack...

Not knowing your skills, this solution might be not what you are looking for.

Good luck,

Thierry

[mwieder]

Nice.

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