General LiveCode Notes

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To access the most current PDFs of the LiveCode user guide, the iOS Deployment Release Notes, and Android Deployment Release Notes, launch LiveCode and go to the help menu.

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The screen dimensions to develop for the iPhone 4 are 320 X 480.

The screen dimensions to develop for the iPad are 1024 by 768.

For Android, start with the screen dimensions of 480x800.

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In order to cut, copy, or duplicate a card, you first have to go to that card and choose "Card Inspector" from the Object menu, only then will the cut and copy options appear in the Edit menu.

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Use \ to continue one line of code to the next line (Line continuation character)

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Use // at start of line to make the line a comment.

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Use /* */ as beginning and ending tags to turn multiple lines into one long comment.

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ASCII codes

Numbers 0-9: 48-57
A-Z: 65-90
a-z: 97-122
Misc: ! 33 " 34 ' 39 ( 40 ) 41 * 42 + 43 , 44 - 45 . 46 / 47

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To get data from a Web page and use it in LiveCode, use the following code:

put URL "[put complete URL of Web page here]" into [an appropriate container of the information]

Examples:
put URL "http://www.nowhereroad.com/livecode/data/contact.txt" into field "contact"

put URL "http://www.nowhereroad.com/livecode/data/schedule.txt" into gData

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Sound Effects Resources

Wide assortment of sound effects, most free to copy/use: Freesound.org

sound effects generator: http://www.bfxr.net/

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