Is there a PDF LiveCode 5 manual available?

[cascadesjohn]

Just having purchased LiveCode 5, I'd like to have a complete learning resource (in PDF, probably) that I could put on my iPad to use in Good Reader. Working with LiveCode on my MacBook Pro, reading as needed from the iPad - - that's what works pretty well for me.
Thanks.

[Mark]

Hi,

Choose "User Guide" from the Help menu. Unfortunately, this document is 2 years old, but this is all there is.

Kind regards,

Mark

[cascadesjohn]

Thanks, Mark. Certainly much better than nothing.

I see your 2006 join date, so assume you know your way around Live Code. Could you alert me to one or two major topics that are most likely to be out-of-date in the older manual? In any case, I should be able to make a lot of progress even using the old manual.

Thanks again.

John

[Mark]

Hi John,

I do know my way around and therefore rarely use the manual. One of the subjects I can think of is Unicode, which appears to be § 6.4.5 and later in the manual. It is also strange that iPhone isn't mentioned at all in the manual.

Kind regards,

Mark

[jacque]

Since little has changed in the IDE since the last update to the user guide, think you can trust what you see there. It mainly covers use of the IDE; the best place to get mobile information is from the Help menu, where each mobile platform has its own release notes.

The new unicode and mobile syntax have been incorporated into the dictionary, which is a good reference on its own (though not a PDF; it's over a thousand pages when printed.) Reading through the dictionary will tell you quite a bit, there are gems of info scattered throughout.

Basically, the user guide will tell you how to use the IDE, and the dictionary will tell you how to use the language.

[jameshale]

The other document that is updated is the "Release Notes"
(You can find a link to these on the initial LiveCode product page if the link below doesn't work.)
http://www.runrev.com/downloads/livecod ... -5_5_1.pdf
These include all the changes made to the languages and the engine/IDE.

James

[cascadesjohn]

Will print the Release Notes for such time as I might be lost. (That's an inside joke for myself - - I'm a beginner, so I'd better put those notes under my pillow at night.)