I would be surprised if you could get this to work as DropBox states specifically that you cannot link to folders in your Public folder:
<https://www.dropbox.com/help/16> "While you can't link to folders in your Public folder, you can link to files within sub-folders" That said, you could generate a simple text file in your Public folder with a list of your available files, and read from that. It's a bit manual, but you could automate the process in your LiveCode development. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design Recently, Michael Doub wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ 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