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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Better Theming in LiveCode 8

by Fraser Gordon on March 9, 2016 3 comments

The design of user interfaces has changed substantially since LiveCode was first created. For example, instead of a single font used throughout the UI, modern designs use a variety of different fonts for different purposes, in varying sizes and styles.

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Script Only Stacks

by Mark Waddingham on March 3, 2016 14 comments

In LiveCode 8 there is a new option in the (new) ‘New Stack’ submenu:

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This new option allows you to create what is called a ‘script only stack’.

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Map widget coming to LiveCode

by Steven Crighton on February 22, 2016 3 comments

mergMK is a LiveCode MapKit external that adds a map control which supports showing user location with heading, adding annotation pins and polylines. Create stunning interactive maps with ease. Important: The Map Kit framework uses Google services to provide map data pre-iOS 6. Use of specific classes of this framework (and their associated interfaces) binds you to the Google Maps/Google Earth API terms of service.

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Merging with mergEXT

by Kevin Miller on February 18, 2016 5 comments

Today we are delighted to announce a very exciting acquisition for LiveCode: we have purchased the full suite of the invaluable mergEXT externals for iOS. These will shortly be included with your Indy or Business license purchase. We will also be hiring the well known creator of these externals and LiveCode Guru Monte Goulding, to work for us full time. Over time our team will work with Monte to turn them into integrated widgets that work across more platforms, in LiveCode 8.

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