Empowering Voices and Catalyzing Success with LiveCode

by Adam Howard on June 13, 2023 No comments

LiveCode’s Transformative Impact on Mental Health Advocacy and David Glasgow’s Psychology Career.

David Glasgow is a psychologist with a passion for helping children and vulnerable adults find their voice. Alongside his colleagues, David developed a remarkable software called In My Shoes, which provides a vital platform for individuals to express their thoughts on the mental challenges they face. This innovative program has made a difference to many, enabling the reporting of trauma, abuse, illnesses, and mental health concerns with greater efficiency and impact.

What led you to begin using LiveCode?

Initially available exclusively on Mac, the software faced resistance from institutions that predominantly used other platforms, such as Windows. Determined to reach a wider audience, David did some research, leading him to the discovery of LiveCode and our transformative cross-platform development tools.

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Thanks to you, Xavvi is coming!

by Adam Howard on May 24, 2023 11 comments

Xavvi is Coming! Thank You for making our crowdfunding campaign a hit. Here’s how you can get hands-on with our new AI and no-code tool Xavvi in just a few weeks…

Thank you!

Firstly, I’d like to start by expressing our utmost gratitude for the support that was put behind our recent crowdfunding campaign. After being told countless times that people wouldn’t fund a software project of this nature, or crowdfunding wouldn’t be a viable option in this instance, we had faith in the community and went ahead and did it anyway. 

And you guys totally blew us away with your support. We managed to raise almost $350,000 as a community to put towards our new no-code and AI innovation, Xavvi. This is a remarkable figure since non-gaming software projects almost never get funded to this level. If you look on Kickstarter for example, only a handful of software tech projects have ever reached this level of funding and one of them is ours! The LiveCode community is a force to be reckoned with. On behalf of the entire team I’d love to give a big thank you to everyone who supported or shared the campaign.

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Adam HowardThanks to you, Xavvi is coming!

My View on Xavvi – What LiveCoders Need to Know

by Steven Crighton on May 12, 2023 9 comments

Over the last few weeks we have produced some rather fancy-looking videos showing off the incredible things that Xavvi will be able to do. We’ve also sent a bunch of emails and held a few Q&As. This afternoon at 16.00 pm whilst having my last coffee of the day, I felt that not everyone has fully grasped everything that Xavvi is and intends to be. I came to that conclusion after reading a few forum posts and hearing the questions that have been coming in on the live Q&As, So I’ve opened up a Google doc and I am bringing it to you, straight up!

I’d like to start by clarifying that this blog post is intended for people already using the LiveCode development tool, looking at Xavvi and wondering what it means for them.

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Steven CrightonMy View on Xavvi – What LiveCoders Need to Know

Xavvi: Demo and Your Questions Answered

by Heather Laine on April 27, 2023 7 comments

Our recent Zoom meeting on Xavvi was so successful we had to convert it to a full blown Webinar to allow everyone to attend that wanted to. Thank you everyone who came along and brought your questions! Even though the session overran by half an hour, we still didn’t get through all of your questions. Therefore we have transcribed them here and answered as fully as we can.

Intro and Vision

If you couldn’t make the webinar, here is the overview introduction to Xavvi, and why we are doing it, from Kevin Miller, CEO.

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Using PolyList to Create Dropdown Menus

by Ben Jack on April 25, 2023 3 comments

This tutorial will guide you through creating a dropdown menu using a PolyList widget. The finished product will be able to display an array of data, even if the array itself contains more arrays. The completed stack should look like the below example, where you can drag a button on, give it a name and click it to create and build the PolyList. You can learn more about the PolyList widget here. Note, Polylist is an addon for LiveCode, if you don’t already own it you can get it here.

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LiveCode 10 DP-5: Smaller, faster, richer

by Mark Waddingham on April 18, 2023 3 comments

I’m delighted to announce the release of LiveCode 10, dp-5.

Web Engine Size

This release includes the first iteration of the work we have been doing to reduce the download size of the web engine.

The (unicode related) data the engine needs to run has been split into three files – icu-core.dat, icu-iter.dat and icu-coll.dat.

The core data file is always downloaded, the engine will not run without it.

The coll data file is only downloaded if the browser does not have the necessary JavaScript collation APIs (recent versions of Chrome, Safari, Edge and Firefox do have the necessary features).

The iter data file is only downloaded if the browser does not have the necessary JavaScript segmentation APIs (recent versions of Chrome, Safari and Edge do have the necessary features).

The result is that the current minimum size of a LiveCode web app (when running on Chrome, Safari and Edge) has changed as follows:

  • Uncompressed size has dropped from 23.6 Mb down to 15.7Mb
  • Gzip compressed size has dropped from 10.6Mb down to 7.6Mb
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LiveCode 9.6.9 Released

by Panagiotis Merakos on April 10, 2023 2 comments

We’re delighted today to announce the release of LiveCode 9.6.9, Stable. This version comes with more than 75 new features, bugfixes, and security improvements compared to 9.6.8, including:

  • Support for Android API 31, which is now a requirement for submitting new apps to the Google Play Store.
  • Update to the version of OpenSSL used by the engine to 1.1.1q, allowing LiveCode built apps including “SSL & Encryption” to be submitted successfully to the Google Play Store.
  • Support for building with Xcode 14.2 and the iOS 16.2 SDK to meet the new (as of April 2023) requirements of the Apple AppStore.
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Jay Pinnock’s Journey to Success with Edgenotes

by Heather Laine on March 30, 2023 1 comment

When did you start using LiveCode?

Jay started with LiveCode by writing apps for his kids. His first app was a clock, and his first challenge was getting the analogue clock hands to sweep around smoothly. He felt incredible when he solved this maths problem and saw it working in the app! Using LiveCode made it easy to load onto an Android device to share the result immediately with his wife and kids. LiveCode offers a sense of achievement very quickly, within hours or days. 

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Heather LaineJay Pinnock’s Journey to Success with Edgenotes