- opt out of the levels thing on first load, it's not ready. - instead, jump straight in the designer and run through these few steps:
- drag & drop a button, click on it, notice it sends out messages on the blue channel - D&D a counter, notice that it listens to a blue channel, and that the button clicks cause it to increment (that's how we "program" these components - D&D another button, make it emit on a different color, and configure the counter to "count down" on that color. That way one button increments, the other decrements
- D&D the fireworks component, configure its "shoot this many rockets" to a third color (and clear "shoot rocket); make the counter emit on that color. Enjoy the fireworks show.
- Other components that work well for understanding things are:
- ratings widget - input widget connected to a map widget will center the map on a place name (although HN will likely exceed the limits on our usage of the OSM server; need to setup another one =() - flickr widget can do both topic and location searches
Let us know if you have ideas for components we should build (or submit a PR!).
The publish button will create "hosted apps" which can be installed on FirefoxOS, Firefox for Android, and incidentally recent builds of Firefox desktop, although the focus for Appmaker is very much mobile apps).