With LiveCode’s new remote debugger available in the LiveCode Business edition, you can debug your standalone applications using the IDE script editor just as you can when running them in the IDE.
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The onebillion Connection
by Heather Laine on December 16, 2016 No commentsOur current Holiday Season offer features a limited edition set of LiveCode books. What makes them a limited edition is the special cover design featuring onebillion, and the donation we are making from each sale to this organisation.
But who are onebillion, and why are we supporting them?
read moreLiveCode Widgets: The “Spinner” Activity Indicator
by Peter Brett on December 9, 2016 5 commentsOne of the new widgets being introduced in LiveCode 9 is the “spinner” widget, which can be used to indicate when your application is busy doing a long-running task.
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LiveCode Widgets: The Segmented Control
by Peter Brett on December 2, 2016 7 commentsLiveCode 8 introduced the segmented control widget. This very versatile widget can be used in several user interface roles, and this blog post shows you how to use it to align text in a field and to create a 5-star rating control.
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Some exciting HTML5 demos for LiveCode 9 DP 3
by Peter Brett on November 28, 2016 1 commentLast 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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Control your webpage with LiveCode HTML5
by Peter Brett on November 23, 2016 3 commentsWhen 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 moreWhat’s new in LiveCode 9.0 DP 2?
by Peter Brett on November 21, 2016 No commentsOver 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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Ignite Your Sites with revIgniter
by Ralf Bitter on November 11, 2016 1 comment[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.
Why 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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