When 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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Planning for better at the World Economic Forum
by Todd Fabacher on January 20, 2016 2 commentsLiveCode 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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Putting the ‘You’ in Documentation
by Ali Lloyd on January 18, 2016 2 commentsFirst 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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How to create plugins and tools with the LiveCode 8.0 IDE
by Ali Lloyd on December 21, 2015 1 commentThe LiveCode 8.0 IDE
Several of the IDE’s palettes have been rewritten in LiveCode 8.0 to support widgets, most notably the Tools Palette and the Property Inspector. Also many stacks have become script-only, to enable better version control in the LiveCode IDE Git repository – this includes the project browser, the menu bar, and parts of the script editor.
Since there was so much code rewriting occurring in IDE stacks any, we took the opportunity to update the way the stack interact with user stacks and each other. As much as possible, the functionality and data provision for these stacks now comes from the central IDE library, revIDELibrary. This removes their interdependency, and allows them to be viewed as plugins or extensions. As such they provide examples of how we recommend structuring such extensions.
They take advantage of some new features and abstractions in the 8.0 IDE, which can hopefully be leveraged by you, the plugin authors and tool makers, regardless of whether you are planning to distribute them or not. By using this system as much as possible, you can help refine the functionality for the benefit of all, all the while ensuring that the tools remain compatible and potentially improving the performance of the IDE while they are in use.
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Are you getting the most from your LiveCode License?
by Kevin Miller on December 17, 2015 2 commentsHas your business grown this year? Has your development needs changed? Are you getting the most from your LiveCode License? LiveCode Community, Indy and Business are designed to meet specific development needs and come with their own terms of use. One of the commonest queries received in support is “What license type should I be using?” Here are the things you need to bear in mind and the benefits of each license.
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Nasa – Landsat
by Heather Laine on December 1, 2015 No commentsLandsat 7 Satellite On-Orbit Flight Automation System
“It’s a high-level language with a low-level of frustration.”
Developing a wide variety of apps quickly to meet changing project needs is critical to the USGS team who monitor the NASA Landsat 7 satellite.
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LiveCode Services
by Steven Crighton on November 24, 2015 No commentsDid you know that LiveCode offers professional services?
To help our clients deliver we have added new features to the product, enhanced existing features, prioritized project critical bugs and provided training sessions to doctors. We are currently in the process of providing architecture advice on a rather interesting security tech project. Our expertise has helped our customers overcome the pitfalls that were delaying their projects.
Don’t just take our word for it…
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How To Add a Web Browser to Your App
by Ian Macphail on November 10, 2015 8 commentsIf you’re using the latest release of LiveCode 8.0 then the answer to that question is incredibly simple: just open up your stack and drag a browser control (the icon that looks like a little picture of the Earth) from the toolbar onto your stack. Then you can resize it however you like and open up the property inspector to set the url you want the browser to display. Easy!
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