I'm celebrating

[chris25]

I have now completed my second app which is shown here. I am simply wanting to thank all of you who have persisted in giving me guidance, without you I would have never have been able to get off the ground. When I first came to Livecode, without having ever had anything to do with programming at all my whole life, I did not even know what a handler or a variable was, in fact I saw a reference to 'ruby on rails' and thought it was a gorgeous American lass sliding down the bannister with a glass of champagne in her hand. I am now thinking up my next exercise (??) but felt that so much credit is due to a number of people on this forum. Your time is appreciated.

As a side note I inserted an 'on mouseEnter' into the left field so that the far right hand field (result) would look nicely empty when the user (my wife) inserts her next digit. I originally coded it with an 'on mouesDown' with the number 1 - as given in the dictionary but for some reason this failed. maybe I misunderstood its purpose here?

Anyway, time now to devise a new headache for myself...Mmm...

[dunbarx]

Was this the same guy who only a few days ago was complaining about the dictionary?

Craig

[chris25]

Mmm...yeees. Although maybe someone could write a "how to use this dictionary" page for newbies and the ill-informed. They even do that for the oxford English dictionary of words!

[jacque]

We told you there was a learning curve.

Congratulations. It looks really pretty. I'm glad you stuck with it.

[chris25]

Thanks Jacque. I would say though that the learning curve is shaped more like straight line with lots of canyons

[Simon]

Chris,
Great first project!
Before moving on I suggest you make it even more prettier.
Mess around with fonts (available fonts on each platform are the same as web).
Cut a nice "GO" button with a hover state.
"Balance" the whole look and feel. Don't rush to get the project out the door without thinking about how the end user feels about the app, they are more likely to use it often if they have a connection to it.

These things are just about the look but you will find out more about field's and buttons by doing it.

Simon

[chris25]

Hi Thanks Simon. This was just for my wife, though she changed the image to something she designed herself in illustrator. But yes, you ar eabsolutely right, I have overlooked aesthetics since that is the least of my worries at this stage, yes, the go button needs spicing up when I am feeling less overworked, I will make it my first ever update Here is the new image, sorry Jacque.

[Simon]

This was just for my wife

You like living on the edge, don't you
With the new background you'll have to improve your side of things.

Simon

[chris25]

Actually to be serious I really was tempted to make the mouth of the goose open when she clicked on Go. But that just seemed too beyond my abilities at the moment.

[dave.kilroy]

Chris - you are in great danger of become addicted to programming - step away from the computer now and never touch it again or you will never be free!

[Simon]

...make the mouth of the goose open when she clicked on Go

You know you can use "revSpeak" to have the goose actually say the answer....

Come to the Dark Side

Simon

[chris25]

Chris - you are in great danger of become addicted to programming - step away from the computer now and never touch it again or you will never be free!
dave.kilroy
VIP Livecode Opensource Backer

=====Dave, I wrote a handler with a repeat loop structure that prevents me from absconding from my commitment=======


You know you can use "revSpeak" to have the goose actually say the answer....

Come to the Dark Side =========Only if you switch the lights on.......
Simon

=====Simon, yes I know but "revSpeak" can't speak 'Goose'======

[dunbarx]

What can you mean????

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on mouseUp
   revspeak "honk"
end mouseUp

Craig

[chris25]

not when he has a cold:
on mouseUp
revspeak "honkchkchkch"
end mouseUp

[jacque]

Actually to be serious I really was tempted to make the mouth of the goose open when she clicked on Go. But that just seemed too beyond my abilities at the moment.

Easy peasy. Make the second image with the goose's mouth open. Import it into the stack and place it exactly where the first one is. When the script should "talk", hide the current image and show the new one. When it should stop, swap the visibility.

Try it, you'll be amazed.