Over 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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Infinite Livecode: Java progress
by Ali Lloyd on November 9, 2016 4 commentsCurrent progress
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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LiveCode Widgets: More Line Chart Madness
by Monte Goulding on November 2, 2016 No commentsContinuing 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 moreWhat’s new in LiveCode 9 DP 1?
by Peter Brett on October 17, 2016 4 commentsToday 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 more3000 Malaysian School Children Learn Programming With LiveCode
by Fadillah Iskandar on October 12, 2016 10 commentsThis 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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Get a Hacktoberfest t-shirt by contributing to LiveCode
by Peter Brett on September 30, 2016 1 commentThis 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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LiveCode Widgets: Modifying the Line Chart
by Monte Goulding on September 15, 2016 2 commentsLast 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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