Last week, we released a powerful new feature for HTML5 apps built with LiveCode: using JavaScript to integrate into the surrounding web page. LiveCode users have already been using this to build fun HTML5 apps and to demonstrate how powerful this new feature is.
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When you deploy a LiveCode 9 app to the web with HTML5 deployment, you can now call into JavaScript and integrate your app with the surrounding web page. Deploy your app with LiveCode 9 Developer Preview 2 and try it out.
read moreOver the last month, we’ve been working hard on our next feature release, LiveCode 9. Today we’re making a new developer preview available, including a powerful new capability for HTML5 development, and a completely rewritten LiveCode Builder virtual machine.
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[Editors note] This month we are celebrating the relaunch of our hosting service as LiveCode Hosting. With the spotlight on LiveCode Server I asked Ralf Bitter if he would like to write a bit about his excellent LC Server Framework, revIgniter.
It was 2009 when the On-Rev web hosting service was introduced, long before the LiveCode Server engine was available to be installed on arbitrary web servers. Back then early adopters like me were thrilled and eager to learn about the new possibilities enabled by “a new variant of the existing technology that allows you to mix Revolution code with HTML content on the same page much in the same way as PHP”1. There was a vibrant community dedicated to server-side scripting at the forums which were rapidly flooded with lots of code samples all mixing LiveCode (formerly Revolution) code with HTML or even additionally with CSS and JavaScript.
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Since the Infinite LiveCode project was funded we have been hard at work with all the unglamorous but important preparation needed to make it possible, including refactoring the LiveCode Builder virtual machine. We have also made significant progress on the Java foreign function interface (FFI) that sits between the LiveCode Builder world and the Java world. Once the remaining few pull requests are merged, it will possible to interface with loaded Java classes, in particular the Android API – enabling you to instantly add vast swathes of additional functionality to your Android apps.
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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!
read moreToday we’re releasing the first developer preview of our next feature release, LiveCode 9. In addition to stability improvements, there are some really neat new features to dig into. From LiveCode 9, we’ll also be changing the way we number LiveCode releases.
read moreThis month, leading up the National Code Challenge in Malaysia, was extremely hectic, but extremely rewarding and I am overjoyed with the way the event went.
I am the lead trainer and content developer for the Coding@Schools program, a government funded initiative aimed at introducing primary school children in Malaysia into the world of computing and programming, to encourage them to become contributors to and creators of the Internet rather than mere consumers.
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