We last gave you an update on LiveCode 8 development in November 2015, when we introduced the browser widget. But there’s been a lot of exciting enhancements added to LiveCode 8 since then, and with today’s Developer Preview 15 release, it’s a good time to look at what’s new.
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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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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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Difficult tasks made easier, unaccessible skills made accessible, I love it when I come across something like this, it just makes me happy!
read moreToday was all about coding and world leaders. Almost every conversation I had eventually focused on how coding is the future and a key to success. My conversation with Will.i.am, who was incredibly knowledgeable, focused on utilizing the power of objects to shield the complexity of development from students when they first start. I explained that this is the power of LiveCode and why a simple syntax English like language is far better than Scratch from MIT. Kevin and Steven, he suggested you double down on Code Day and contact him directly when LC8 with widgets is all out because he was amazed that one language could do all the platforms including HTML5…mark it on your calendar: http://will.i.am/.
read moreWhen I arrived in Davos yesterday, the word for the day quickly became security. Not just police and normal security, but hard core military, Given the state of affairs in the world today it is understandable, but it is shocking to see them on almost every corner.
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LiveCode evangelist Todd Fabacher from Digital Pomegranate is in Davos this week at the World Economic Forum. Todd will be creating a series of blog posts from Davos talking about the advantages of LiveCode as he creates a business planning app in just 4 days.
It’s 5:00 am and I’m looking at the majestic Mt. Ararat in Turkey from the window of the Armenian airport in Yerevan. I started reading an article about how entrepreneurism and technology will have a massive impact on Iran now that the sanctions were lifted this past weekend. Since Iran is just down the road from where I am now, the impact seems to be even more powerful and has been the topic of conversation here. I am not boarding a flight back to New York this time, but to Zurich Switzerland and then by train to Davos to attend the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.
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First things first, sorry about that title. But once I had thought of it I couldn’t back out.
Now then. In a previous blog I described the new documentation format that we would be using for the dictionary in LiveCode 8, which aimed to be much more easily read and modified than the old XML files. Indeed, there have been more documentation bugs fixed in the 8.0 cycle than those of 6.7 and 7.1 put together, so on that front it has already been reasonably successful.
We have had some community contributions to the documentation, but we would love to have more. So to that end I’ve put together a guide outlining our documentation goals and a step-by-step guide to making changes. The guide takes you through how to modify the appropriate files and submit a pull request in three different ways – using only the GitHub website, using a downloaded Git GUI client, and using the command line.
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