Hi, Last week I organised a trivia party with friends. We have been having a trivial pursuit championship over the last 12 months. Having organised the party I discovered that my electronic doo-hickey from the Trivia Pursuit publishers is no longer supported so I couldn't add any more questions. What to do? Well, if you have Livecode the answer is a bit obvious. Write my own. That's what I did. It's not flash and it's not fancy. But, it took me about a day to write an interface that allows me to upload trivia questions from a text document and then select categories of question to ask during the game. It's pretty much just an electronic pack of trivia pursuit cards.
The most interesting thing for me was that in that day of Livecoding I decided that this really needed to be delivered as a mobile app. I have not used Livecode for mobile development before so I thought this might be a really big ask. In fact, this was incredibly easy. I still have to work on resizing routines and I know I'm actually going to enjoy this tedious task because Livecode is such an easy environment to play around in. So, right now, I have a working Android app that sits on my phone. If I spend a few more hours I know that I will have the same app prepared for deployment on devices with different screen sizes. And a few more hours and I will have developed a more efficient data management process as well. Given that I am not a professional programmer this has really only been possible because Livecode makes the task of developing application logic so straightforward. Here is a screenshot of the app- on my Windows machine. Not sure how to get a screenshot of it running on my phone. trviaApp.png <http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/file/n4660827/trviaApp.png> cheers Alistair Campbell (Australia) -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/1001-things-to-do-with-LiveCode-only-400-page-views-per-day-tp4660715p4660827.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ 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
