Infinite LiveCode – An Example

by Mark Waddingham on May 16, 2016 4 comments

Prologue

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:

  1. Define what you want to be able to do
  2. Find the foreign APIs that you need to use and figure out how they work
  3. Work out a suitable set of functionality to expose to LiveCode Script
  4. Wrap the foreign APIs for use from LiveCode Builder
  5. 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 comments

Following 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.

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Infinite LiveCode – A letter from our CEO

by Kevin Miller on May 12, 2016 No comments

Dear 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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LiveCode 8 Launch Webinar Recording. Plus your questions answered…

by Steven Crighton on May 10, 2016 9 comments

 

 

 

To celebrate the launch of LiveCode 8 we held a special launch webinar where we gave a demo of some of the exciting new features and took your questions live. We have included these questions and answers below as well as some of the questions we just didn’t get round to answering.

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LiveCode Widgets: The Navigation Bar

by Ali Lloyd on May 5, 2016 10 comments

One of the first widgets we decided to include in LiveCode 8.0 was the navigation bar. The IDE previously included a mobile template as a sample stack, but the ability to provide this key bit of functionality as a drag and drop object in the tools palette was a no-brainer. It will hopefully prove to be an extremely useful tool for building native-looking mobile applications rapidly; it also demonstrates some of the power of the LiveCode Builder language that widgets are written in and the seamless integration of widgets in the IDE.

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Introducing LiveCode 8 – Build Powerful Apps Faster

by Kevin Miller on May 4, 2016 No comments

Today, we are excited to launch LiveCode 8. LiveCode 8 represents the next generation of our highly productive LiveCode coding environment for building mobile, desktop and cloud apps. Three years in the making, this represents the fruition of our $750,000 Kickstarter funded project. LiveCode 8 is packed full of new features and enhancements to the LiveCode Platform.

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LiveCode Interactive Tutorials

by Ali Lloyd on March 31, 2016 30 comments

Way back in April 2015 I made a small prototype of how an interactive tutorial system might work in LiveCode. Here’s how it looked:Screen Shot 2016-02-25 at 11.37.05

 

It worked reasonably well – well enough to demonstrate the feasibility of such a system. It was generally agreed that it was something we would like to develop. However the prototype was almost completely hard-coded, meaning changing the tutorial would be difficult, and there was no capacity for having multiple different tutorials in the IDE. As there was still plenty of work to do on the IDE for 8.0, the tutorial was put on hold for a while (albeit returned to periodically to make sure it still vaguely worked, and to make some of the generalisations it needed).

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