Below is an exclusive screenshot of the LiveCode RTL edition for left handed users. As you can see we have flip reverse engineered the right handed version of the platform making it now 100% accessible to left handed users.
In a recent community survey which many of you contributed towards we asked our basic demographic questions to complete a picture of our community. These questions included, which industry you work in, your job level, what is your dominant hand and which version of LiveCode you use.
The results were astonishing. 43% of the LiveCode community are left handed users who up to now have been struggling through with a right handed version of the product.
How do I purchase the left handed edition?
We have added a new field into our checkout process which simply asks you if you are left or right handed, the appropriate version will be supplied depending on your selection.
Will the left handed edition cost more?
No -the price of LiveCode Commercial RTL edition for left handed users will be exactly the same, $500 per license. Left handed users will also be pleased to hear we will be releasing a community version of this edition.
Ambidextrous users will be asked to pay double the fee
All of this is available without any extra work on the part of a developer creating a LiveCode app – our goal with our left handed edition is to make it just as easy to create an app regardless if LTR or RTL. We hope you’ll be pleased with the result!
What are people saying?
From our survey results we are very confident that the LiveCode RTL edition for left handed users will be a massive success.
Kevin Miller – LiveCode CEO says “For many years our left handed community have been creating software to a high standard using the traditional platform. I am very excited to see just what they will be able to achieve with a dedicated RTL edition to suit their left handed coding style. Our goal is to make coding accessible and achievable by all, this is another neccessary step towards achieving this goal.”
For testing we approached some LiveCode left handed users and we were blown away by the results. You can see from the image below the difference simply using the correct hand made.
Left Handed? Create your Mona Lisa Today!
29 comments
Join the conversationMateo Guevara - April 1, 2014
LOL, that’s a good one 😉
Pascal - April 1, 2014
Love it 🙂
runrev - April 1, 2014
LC Survey sparks new RTL Left edition release. Steven talks about this in the LiveCode Blog – http://t.co/BY5uJmuMMy
doobox - April 1, 2014
RT @runrev: LC Survey sparks new RTL Left edition release. Steven talks about this in the LiveCode Blog – http://t.co/BY5uJmuMMy
Samuel - April 1, 2014
(-: snoisrev htob eht tnaw I
Nick - April 1, 2014
When it hits you …
Dominic Lamontagne - April 1, 2014
Indeed!
Dave Kilroy - April 1, 2014
Nice one – and I’d buy it if cost 005 instead of 500 dollars 🙂
Johannes Weber - April 1, 2014
YES, a really good one!
Sean O'Connor - April 1, 2014
As a lefthanded person myself I just had to chuckle at this one.;-)
Allen - April 1, 2014
This should substantially reduce workplace coding injuries for left handed staff.
Cranker - April 1, 2014
I’m not a lefty myself although I do put the mouse on the left side when I’m… Relaxing. This way I’ll be able to switch between working and… Relaxing, withouht ever taking the hand off my… Relaxing instrument! Thank you RunRev! 🙂
tate83 - April 1, 2014
RT @runrev: LC Survey sparks new RTL Left edition release. Steven talks about this in the LiveCode Blog – http://t.co/BY5uJmuMMy
BYTE - April 1, 2014
WILL YOU BE MAKING THE SLOOT MENU AVAILABLE FOR RIGHT HANDED USERS?
Steven Crighton - April 1, 2014
all of the eliF tidE slooT txeT tnempoleveD weiV wodniW and pleH menus are available to right-handed users
Marco - April 1, 2014
Any version planned for mid handed users?
Sean O'Connor - April 1, 2014
Oh and how about left brain or right brain versions haha.;-)
Steven Crighton - April 1, 2014
Perhaps we can launch these versions around the same time next year 😉
Mikey - April 1, 2014
I’m still waiting for the Southern Hemisphere version – maybe you don’t understand RTL, but you advertise the product as 500 USD, and we all know that USD stands for Up Side Down
Marcus - April 1, 2014
Thank you for a lovely laugh out loud this morning, took me a moment to click.
jacque - April 1, 2014
I know from experience the injuries one can sustain from sitting next to a left-handed user at a dinner table. This edition is very welcome even to right-handed people.
There is a bug in the dialog display, however, which has reverted to a right-handed release from some years ago.
Fraser Gordon - April 2, 2014
That error message seems to pop up from time to time, usually when we’ve broken something fairly important in the engine… I guess my work for the left-handed edition has a few bugs remaining!
FourthWorldSys - April 1, 2014
Today RunRev announced their new #LiveCode IDE for left-handed developers:
http://t.co/RQattrfFyH
Jim - April 1, 2014
Love the new version, but it now the middle button on my mouse won’t work. Think I should report it?
Steven Crighton - April 1, 2014
I will be sure to report this middle button bug for you 🙂
Richmond - April 2, 2014
I think RunRev would become an extra special company (and much easier to understand) if it did not confine itself to announcing really useful things on one day a year.
Sean Cole - April 2, 2014
Too much time on your Left hands 😉
Fraser Gordon - April 10, 2014
Just in case anyone is looking back at this and wondering… the screenshots are not doctored – LiveCode was really drawing the text that way. If you want to do it for your own text:
-- Force text to be drawn as right-to-left
put numToCodepoint(0x202E) before tText
That particular codepoint is a Unicode control character for specifying text direction, in case you were wondering (and of course you were!)
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