Hi Alastair I've just prepared the entry about your trivia app for 1001 things to do with LiveCode. I've taken a little "poetic licence" to avoid mentioning trivial pursuits and to cut it down a little (to fit into the blog style).
Let me know if anything needs changing. It should go out within a couple of weeks. Cheers Peter On 21 Feb 2013, at 07:25, planix wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
