I am trying to take your concept and make it a bit more generic but I feel like I must be in the Friday blues. I am stuck on syntax or I am loosing my mind. Probably the latter. ;-)
Rather than go to the stack directly I wanted to pick up the url from the first line of a text file so it is easy to switch stacks. Sounds easy enough but its is not working! The correct URL is in fact in the StacktoLoad variable. What am I missing in the syntax? on mouseUp put URL "http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4379494/LiveCode/LoadLinks" into list put line 1 of list into StacktoLoad go URL StacktoLoad end mouseUp -= Mike On 02/11/2012, at 8:32 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: > This may already be old news, but I thought I'd throw it out there in case > this helps someone... If you're already using your DropBox account to help > speed up your mobile development process, read no farther. > > I've been developing stacks for iOS use on and off over the last year, and > have been annoyed with the bottleneck process of building standalones, > uploading them to the device, launching the test app on the device, finding > everything that doesn't work, and then starting the whole process over every > time I make a change. Even using the simulator just takes too long and is > sometimes inaccurate compared to running on a real device. So I wondered if > I could save some time using LC's "go url xyz..." ability to access a stack > remotely with DropBox. And it actually works perfectly. > > First I loaded my dev stack to my Public DropBox folder, and right-clicked > on the stack to get its DropBox address. > > Then I built a simple mobile standalone that contains a single button with > the script: > go url "http://dl.dropbox.com/path_to_my_stack.livecode" > > After uploading the simple standalone *one time* to my mobile device, I > launch the simple standalone, press the button, and my dev stack appears on > my device within a couple of seconds. With the original stack open on my > desktop system (saved in DropBox), I save any changes, relaunch the simple > standalone on the mobile device, and press the button to immediately see my > changes. No uploading or file transfers are needed. I do this for all the > mobile devices I want to test on -- as soon as I save the dev stack in my > DropBox, all my testing devices have immediate access to it. > > I haven't tried this on Android yet, but I assume it will wok the same. > This process has saved me a significant amount of time and sanity -- maybe > it will for you. > > Regards, > > Scott Rossi > Creative Director > Tactile Media, UX Design > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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