You’ve pledged for Foreign Feature Interface and earned a brand new SQLite database library. With less than 48 hrs to go there’s still time to add Audio Recording to the mix! Here is what you need to know about this stretch goal…
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Infinite LiveCode – The First Stretch Goal – SQLite Library
by Mark Waddingham on May 20, 2016 3 commentsSQLite databases are used ubiquitously in modern applications. Whether they be used as caches for downloaded data (so apps can run offline), as a file format for document editing apps or just for persistent data storage. Indeed, we feel that they are so important that they deserve their own clean, modern, high-level set of functions in LiveCode Script to access directly – rather than going through revDB.
For this Infinite LiveCode stretch goal we propose to:
- Provide gyp-based descriptions of building the SQLite native code library.
- Wrap the SQLite API using Infinite LiveCode to allow it to be used directly from Builder
- Write a Builder module which allows usage of SQLite databases easily from Builder
- Write a Builder library module which exposes a high-level API for manipulating SQLite databases directly from Script
Trevor DeVore interviews Kevin & Mark on Infinite LiveCode
by Steven Crighton on May 19, 2016 No commentsThe LiveCode community is vital to the success of our platform. We want to ensure the community voice is heard loud and clear. To this end, we approached a leading and respected member of the LiveCode community known for his outstanding contributions and for his extremely successful LiveCode built apps.
We asked Trevor DeVore, Director of Technology at ScreenSteps if he would like to interview Kevin & Mark, asking all the questions that he might have as an active LiveCode community member. Trevor kindly agreed and came up with some excellent questions which we are sure will be of interest to a wide audience!
read moreWhat does Infinite LiveCode mean for users of the platform?
by Steven Crighton on May 18, 2016 No commentsUnless you have been avoiding your mailbox recently you will know that LiveCode 8 has launched with the first iteration of LiveCode widgets written in the LiveCode Builder Language. LiveCode 8 marks the beginning of the new for the LiveCode platform.
Today, LiveCode lets us build powerful applications faster. We have a powerful and productive programming language that is close to the way we speak and think, we have a tool that enables rapid app development, we can deploy apps to all major platforms from one code base. Imagine if we had a thriving extensions EcoSystem with thousands of useful widgets and libraries that you can use in your application without the need to expand your team size or programming ability. As things stand you can open up LiveCode and drag out useful objects, customise them in the Property Inspector and you have a fully functioning object that would have required hand coding in previous versions. This will forever be useful but it does leave you wanting more, more widgets, more functionality, more usefulness, more productivity.
Introducing the Infinite LiveCode campaign.
What does Infinite LiveCode mean to you, as an end user? Suppose you do not yourself feel you have the time, ability or inclination to write new widgets or extensions for the platform, how does it benefit you?
read moreA gift from the community for the community
by Todd Fabacher on May 17, 2016 4 commentsTo add an extra boost to our Infinite LiveCode campaign, Digital Pomegranate is offering an incentive of infinite possibilities. If we reach our core goal of $40,000 by Friday, Todd Fabacher and Digital Pomegranate will open source to the community their complete WordPress framework. This has taken them a year and cost over $50,000 to research, design and code.
This generous offer will allow LiveCoders to develop ecommerce applications using LiveCode, to update WordPress websites directly using a LiveCode application, to develop survey applications using Gravity forms and many other new benefits that Digital Pomegranate are happy to share with the LiveCode community should we hit this target.
Over to you Todd…
read moreInfinite LiveCode – An Example
by Mark Waddingham on May 16, 2016 4 commentsPrologue
The engineering team at LiveCode recently published a technical whitepaper on how we’d like to make LiveCode Builder interoperate better with other languages by improving its so-called ‘foreign function interface’.
In this post, I’d like to work through an example of how Infinite LiveCode, once it is funded, might be used to write an extension for an ability the engine does not have: battery status monitoring on iOS.
There are several steps involved in working out how to build an extension which hooks into foreign APIs:
- Define what you want to be able to do
- Find the foreign APIs that you need to use and figure out how they work
- Work out a suitable set of functionality to expose to LiveCode Script
- Wrap the foreign APIs for use from LiveCode Builder
- Write a LiveCode Builder module which uses the wrapped foreign APIs to build the LiveCode Script functionality.
I’ll go through each of these five steps in turn.
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LiveCode Widgets: The Header Bar
by Elanor Buchanan on May 15, 2016 9 commentsFollowing Ali’s blog about the navigation bar widget another must-have control we wanted in LiveCode 8 was the header bar. As with the navigation bar this is a very common control in mobile apps and hopefully providing it as a widget will save you time, effort and some of the headaches associated with creating native-looking mobile applications.
The LiveCode header bar is based on the iOS Navigation Bar and the Android App Bar. If you are working on Mac a header bar widget will be themed like an iOS Navigation Bar, if you are working on Windows or Linux it will be themed like an Android App Bar.
read moreInfinite LiveCode – A letter from our CEO
by Kevin Miller on May 12, 2016 No commentsDear All,
Have you tried LiveCode 8 yet? We’re incredibly proud of it and we think you will love it. You can read all about the new benefits here, watch our launch webinar or read the Q&A about LiveCode 8 here.
I’d like to extend a huge thank you to those of you that backed the project through crowd funding and to all our paid license holders and backers who made this mammoth project possible.
But we’re not done yet.
Infinite LiveCode
As truly wonderful as LiveCode 8 is, it is a new set of foundations and a ground floor – an enabler for an ecosystem an order of magnitude larger than the one we already enjoy today. That’s why today I’m announcing the our biggest and most important campaign of 2016 — Infinite LiveCode.
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