This autumn, Digital Ocean and GitHub are once again running a Hacktoberfest promotion: make four contributions to open source projects on GitHub during October, and Digital Ocean will send you a t-shirt. This is a great opportunity for you to get involved in the LiveCode open source project!
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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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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 200Â bug fixes.
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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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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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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.
read moreThis was the first LiveCode conference I attended and I was really excited. This year’s theme was around widgets, LiveCode 8 and open source. There were two tracks and a workshop each day.
On the first day there was a very popular networking event. It was awesome meeting so many members of the community. This was a chance for me to introduce myself to new people, and meet people with whom I talk every day in Bugzilla, the use-list or the LiveCode Forums. So I was finally able to put faces to names. Moreover, in the evening of the same day there was a party to follow, in the LiveCode office, where the fun continued with pizza, beer and games.
read moreBud Nail recently got in touch to tell us about his environmentally friendly digital display project in LiveCode, a fascinating project that Bud is trying to raise funds for on KickStarter. He has kindly agreed to do a guest blog post to tell us all about the project…
First, just a little bit of background on FlipBit. You can go deeper by visiting our KickStarter page. Recently, I was looking for a project that would keep my intern, Alex, interested as he learns to use design and fabrication tools. I had been mentally designing what might be called a mechanical pixel for many years. Typically, it would come to mind when on a long boring drive with nothing much to look at but trees and roadside signs. I had mentally tested and rejected many approaches for cost and complexity reasons, but at some point I finally focused in on what I thought was probably an optimum design. Alex became my inspiration to finally get the design out of the gray matter and into something tangible.
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