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

What’s new in LiveCode 9 DP 1?

by Peter Brett on October 17, 2016 4 comments

Today 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.

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3000 Malaysian School Children Learn Programming With LiveCode

by Fadillah Iskandar on October 12, 2016 10 comments

This 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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Fadillah Iskandar3000 Malaysian School Children Learn Programming With LiveCode

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 8.1 – A major minor release

by Peter Brett on September 12, 2016 5 comments

Back in May 2016 we released LiveCode 8, a massive step forward for the LiveCode ecosystem with new externals, new extensibility with LiveCode Builder widgets, and a new and improved IDE.

Today we’re pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 8.1, which builds on the LiveCode 8 foundation to bring dozens of new features, better performance, and some developer-assisting improvements that’ll just make your life a bit easier – not to mention 200 bug fixes.

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tsNet: New Networking Capabilities for LiveCode

by Charles Warwick on September 9, 2016 2 comments

Starting with the 8.1.0 DP3 release, LiveCode commercial editions include a new networking external, tsNet, that enhances the existing networking capabilities of LiveCode. tsNet utilises the curl networking library to provide a full suite of functions for both synchronous and asynchronous transfers using HTTP(S), FTP(S), SFTP and SMTP(S) protocols. This is good news for LiveCode developers as along with the support of new protocols, all transfer types can be performed in a non-blocking manner with callback support.

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Async Data Transfer in LiveCode: Problem and Solution

by Todd Fabacher on September 9, 2016 1 comment

Digital Pomegranate was recently contacted to create a mobile solution for a back end media monitoring system. For those unfamiliar with media monitoring, you will be amazed how large the industry actually is. They read almost EVERY web page, tweet, public Facebook post and all other types social media data – ALL THE TIME. They also watch and listen to EVERY TV & Cable show, radio station and even online videos like YouTube. This is a massive industry with hundreds of thousands of people monitoring consumer’s media consumption and sentiment.

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Todd FabacherAsync Data Transfer in LiveCode: Problem and Solution