LiveCode Widgets: More Line Chart Madness

by Monte Goulding on November 2, 2016 No comments

Continuing on from my last blog post where I added the showLines and markerStyles property to the line chart and not being one to know when to stop I realised that what the line chart really needs now is more marker styles. I could come up with some more styles and draw them but that’s not as much fun as what I’m going to do. What I’m going to do is allow you to specify one of the 6 marker styles already implemented and also any icon name from the svg library. We can have beautiful charts with little smiley faces as markers!

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Monte GouldingLiveCode Widgets: More Line Chart Madness

LiveCode Widgets: Modifying the Line Chart

by Monte Goulding on September 15, 2016 2 comments

Last week we looked at how to use the Line Chart Widget. This week I am going to show you how to modify this widget. I have included a link to the code on GitHub at the end of this blog post.

Having spent most of my time lately immersed in mergExt externals, the LiveCode engine and the IDE, I haven’t had as much time as I’d like to delve into LiveCode Builder and Widgets. Until now…

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Monte GouldingLiveCode Widgets: Modifying the Line Chart

LiveCode Widgets: The Line Chart

by Monte Goulding on September 7, 2016 28 comments

There’s nothing quite like a good chart for presenting data in a way that is easy for people to quickly understand. A few of us around the office even get strangely excited by chart bling so it’s no surprise that the Line Chart was high on the agenda for LiveCode 8. For someone like me that has spent many hours implementing charts in LiveCode over the years having a chart right there in the tool palette to drag onto my stack is just lovely.

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Monte GouldingLiveCode Widgets: The Line Chart

Extending the interactive welcome BMI app with HealthKit

by Monte Goulding on June 2, 2016 2 comments

By now many of you will have completed the new interactive tutorial for LiveCode 8. If you haven’t done that yet, you might like to go and complete it before continuing on here.

By the end of the tutorial you should have an app that looks something like the image below. If you’re like me and get excited by pancake printers it’s probably telling you something different to the image below but let’s not worry about that just now… the point is you should have an app that uses a web service to calculate BMI and charts it.

Today I’m introducing a new external for HealthKit called mergHK. With mergHK you can read and write to the HealthStore and therefore improve the integration of your health app with the array of other apps that users use to manage their health data.

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Monte GouldingExtending the interactive welcome BMI app with HealthKit