Hi Ben: Did you catch my recent post on using DropBox? Maybe this approach can help: <http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Using-DropBox-for-Faster-Mob ile-Development-td4380386.html>
Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design Recently, Ben Rubinstein wrote: > My view of why development in LiveCode is so rapid is a lot to do with > avoiding the code/compile/test cycle (or at least making the middle bit > unnoticeably rapid). When applied to mobile development, I think that's huge > - we can do most of our work in a desktop context (that is, in the IDE), only > occasionally having to build out to simulator or device to test. As soon as I > run up against something where a change can only be tested on the device or > simulator, my rate of progress drops to a crawl. > > Unfortunately, the desktop engines, and hence the IDE, don't support touch > messages. (And obviously even though many Mac and Windows machines now have > multi-touch input devices, this is complications by the fact that on these > machines, touches don't have a location on screen. So I don't expect this to > change soon.) > > So when I write code responding to touchStart/End/Move/Release, I find I'm > thrown back to the old world for testing, and I don't like it. > > I tried simply adding mouseDown/Up/Move/Release handlers that called the > corresponding touch handlers, but that didn't seem to be a complete solution > (not exactly sure why not, but I did this to a stack that was working on iOS, > and it went awry...). And in any case, that would help for the simple case of > a single touch at a time, but not for the more interesting ones involving > multi-touch gestures, or overlapping touches. > > So my question: what do the smart kids do to speed up their development in > this case? > > TIA, > > Ben _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode