I agree fully with you Graham. Its what has been holding me back for doing work with ios. I admire and thank those who can wrestle with the docs and ins/outs of Apple stuff dealing with ios. Here is an idea, provide free (many year agreement) copies of LC mobile to a school/classroom that develops lots of example stacks/docs to help others master developing on mobile lc. It would be a win-win for all.
On Apr 10, 2012, at 9:37 AM, Graham Samuel <livf...@mac.com> wrote: > > Thanks Chris, very helpful. I have not yet found out how to filter the > Console output so that I only see my own 'put' lines, but give me time... > > IMNSHO the mother ship makes working with iOS unnecessarily difficult by not > explaining things like this more clearly. There are a lot of not fully > explained things in the iOS release notes - to take a small instance, I had > to experiment to work out that iphoneControlGet is a function, not a > substitute for the 'get' command. It's a tiny point, but it makes getting > familiar with a new environment just that bit more difficult. > > A much worse one is the description of the use of the scroller control, where > they virtually give up explaining it in words and hand you over to an > example. This is tough, because the concept is a very unfamiliar one - that > the scroller is not a container but a kind of mask or overlay through which > you see and control an underlying LC control. I am still struggling with > this, especially as it apparently involves the 'unboundedScroll' concept, > which itself is very badly explained in the docs, and indeed includes another > undocumented concept, the 'clamping' of a scroll. This concept applies to a > group, but not to a scrolling list, which is a mystery in itself. By copying > the example as closely as possible, I have got something to work, which is > not the same as saying I understand it fully. > > Really none of the three available documents (Release Notes, User Guide, > Dictionary) are much use here. Thank goodness for this list and the > generosity of people on it. > > Graham _______________________________________________ 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
