Followin the tutorial for Externals Part1

[JosepM]

Hi,

What is the LiveCode path to fill into the Revolution External Creator V3?

/Application/LiveCode 4.5.2.app/Contents/Tools/Externals ?

[Obleo]

The path is to the version of revolution / livecode as possible on an mac to ~/applications/LiveCode 4.5.2.app

add the external name and hit generate. it will create an new stack and all the files needed to open in xcode if mac osx was selected. the folder will be placed on the desktop with the external name. Then just double click on the xcode file to start programming in xcode.

It was not updated for livecode it still .rev but will still works. Yes the info is very vague.

[JosepM]

Hi Obleo,

Yes, you are right.

I created the project and I followed the steps coding the HelloWorld but when I build it I get a fatal error.

The first error It was for the Release XXXXX.xconfig files so they pointed to old SDK destination for 10.4 !
I updated SDKROOT_i386 to /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk and MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET_i386= 10.5

Now, other error...

Invalid conversion from 'void' (*)(char**, int, char**, bool*,bool*) to void ...

I'm blocked, so I haven't idea how to solve this...

Any help?

Salut,
Josep

[kevinmiller]

We just tried this here and it worked ok. If you send zip up and send your ExternalsEnv folder to support@runrev.com, we'll take a look.

[JosepM]

Hi Kevin,

Sended the zip file.

I use XCode 3.2.4.

Salut,
Josep

[JosepM]

Thanks to support I found many typos in my code...

Now is time to go ahead again...

I planning create a external to deal with iCal and the AddressBook in MacOSX. I know that I can do the same using Applescript and launching from Rev, in fact I have solved using this, but for a large amount of data, specially with the AddressBook, the performance and the out of control are hight.

So I decided to try the create my first external for LiveCode.

Next one. How call the Calendar Store Framework inside my code.

I must use the include "CalController.h" and "CalendarStore.h" ?

Any help or tip?

Salut,
Josep

[shaosean]

i think picking up a book (or reading reading online) on how to C/C++ would be a good place to start..

#include "CalController.h"
#include "CalendarStore.h"

[Obleo]

The best advise I can give is to program what you want to do in c, cpp or objective -c built app first, then when that works convert that code to the exteranl to use with revolution.

You may want to ask around first because I recall someone had an addreesbook libray or external for runrev in the past.

sorry for any bad spelling the ipad does not have great spell checking. good luck and have fun.

[JosepM]

Hi,

I know the use of include, but I get many errors about the location of the files and unknow how prepare the environment to build.

I have one sample that works in Cocoa, downloaded from Apple Dev site, and this sample have the two functions that I want to use.

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/ ... Intro.html

I build it successful.

How convert the code to external? But only the functions call.


Salut,
Josep

[Obleo]

The code in objective-c , so you need to write an C Wrapper to get it to work with revolution as an external. Apple ADC Use to have documentation on how to make an c-wrapper call with objective-c . If I recall the spell checker sample code (There two different ones on there site) one has an c-wrapper example.