I am super excited to be able to announce the launch today of LiveCloud. LiveCloud is a brand new hosted cloud data service providing the easiest and most straightforward imaginable backend for your app. LiveCloud is built and hosted by the wonderful people at Canela.
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LC : Knock knock
User : Who’s there
LC : LiveCode
User : LiveCode who?
LC : LiveCode visitors
Joking aside, today we will look at one of the most powerful design patterns when it comes to working on trees – a data structure that is as important to computer science as real trees are to human life.
But first, let’s have a closer look at what the tree data structure represents, and why we might find it useful to define trees.
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WordLib imports MS Word and Open Office documents right into your LiveCode fields. This is all done natively without relying on any other software, API, or interface to do the job. Nor is it based on someone else’s code. Not even Microsoft’s. That’s actually a big deal; as a pure LiveCode script solution, independent and original, built from the ground up, WordLib can target MS Word and LiveCode like nobody else. You don’t even need a word processor or DLL installed to use it; that’s the whole point. You just need LiveCode, WordLib, a document, and a field. Any platform. One line of code. You’re done.
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Arguably, coding is the new literacy. How early should children start to learn coding? Can they learn it while they learn language itself? KidCode is a new app initiative which aims to teach just that. It uses LiveCode to simultaneously teach coding and English, and will shortly be launched in kindergartens in China. It is targeted at children from as young as 2 or 3 years old. The app is a collaboration between HHOTT and So-Easy International.
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A few months ago we announced our new “Develop Yourself” branding, and to celebrate we ran a competition, asking you to make a 3 minute video on the theme of Develop Yourself.
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When I started to build the first version of Data Grid Helper 8 years ago, just a few months after having bought my first LiveCode license, I never imagined DGH would be as successful as it is and how many interesting people would contact me with questions about the datagrid control itself.
read moreLiveCode 9 contains so many new features that it’s almost impossible to cover them all in detail in a single blog post. So I’m not going to try. There have been several other blog posts along the way detailing specific features, which will be linked in the course of this blog – see these for more information.
Instead, I present the inside story of LiveCode 9.0, as it happened. The story has two main threads. The first is the ability to access to libraries and platform APIs written in other languages, aka the community-funded ‘Infinite LiveCode’ project. While the initial implementation of LiveCode Builder included simple C library support, we have extended this to support accessing more complex C libraries, Objective-C and Java. We have also refined the native layer support – there is more to come on this front in the 9 series, particularly for Windows and Linux. So we owe a huge thank you all who contributed, financially and/or otherwise, to achieve this goal.
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If you’re like me, and you come to LiveCode from more “mainstream” programming languages, such as Java (8 or 9) or Python (heck, even C++), then you might be missing some of the very nice functional features for operating on Arrays and Lists, such as maps, filters or even list comprehensions. In this blog post I’ll try and answer the question, whether implementing functional features in LiveCode is a dream?
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