Canela Software

by Jana Doughty on November 5, 2015 No comments

The advantage of using LiveCode is the speed of iteration and ability to write the code once and deploy onto multiple platforms. LiveCode lets us concentrate on providing great solutions. We use it to improve on things quickly and continuously. This ensures that we always deliver the best experience for our users.

Mark TallutoCEO, Canela Software

Top Benefits

  • Unique to the vision care industry, Canela iss able to release on both Mac and Windows platforms with LiveCode.
  • LiveCode allows Canela to develop new features faster than its competitors whom are using Java, Visual Basic, and C.
  • With LiveCode’s natural language syntax, which is quick to read and write, Canela’s technical support continues to amaze due to Canela’s ability to respond to customer needs quickly.

About Canela Software

Canela Software has developed the leading Vision Testing System in the western hemisphere. Canela’s benefits include:

  • Increased accuracy of eye testing
  • Test the untestable
  • Increased productivity with 50% more patients being attended with the same number of staff
  • Integrates with electronic patient records
  • Integrates with other diagnostic equipment
  • Portable capability allows vision care providers the ability to deliver the service off site and undertake analysis at any location
  • SaaS allows the user to pay for the service only when they need it.

About the Project

Canela needed to develop an integrated digital visual acuity system that would increase eye testing accuracy and productivity. Using a small team of developers, Canela needed the ability to deploy its software to multiple platforms efficiently.

Challenges

To effectively participate in its targeted growth markets, Canela had to design a comprehensive set of technologies. Not only did Canela developers have to continue development on vision testing software, they also had to create licensing, CRM, auto update, credit card processing, and in-app purchasing technologies. On top of that, Canela designed CassiaDB, a custom database, to tie all of this together. These were large challenges for a small team to deliver, but with LiveCode, Canela made it all work.

Results

Canela is now the top visual acuity system in the western hemisphere with over 9,000 installations. All of the technologies Canela developed, including CassiaDB, were written entirely in LiveCode. With LiveCode, Canela was able to use out-of-the box features to design its service. Canela Software is currently augmenting its desktop and server business with mobile tie-ins. This is an inclusive approach to providing Canela solutions on any device and it secures Canela’s place in the market as it looks into the future.

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Full Access to the Clipboard

by Fraser Gordon on November 4, 2015 1 comment

LiveCode has had support for clipboard operations since the very early days, using the clipboard function and the clipboardData property. These are perfectly good if plain text, RTF and images are all you need to put on the clipboard but sometimes you need a little more than that.

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Midnight Rises – Alex Seropian

by Jana Doughty on November 3, 2015 No comments

“LiveCode is a robust engine that is really well suited to our project. It has built-in support for creating page based experiences and LiveCode’s scripting system is super fast for prototyping and very flexible for creating many different kinds of views and input schemes.”

 

Midnight Rises is an interactive graphic novel that Alex Seropian created using LiveCode.

1. How would you describe Midnight Rises in 140 characters or less?

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The Maths App

by Heather Laine on November 1, 2015 No comments

How Eurotalk used LiveCode to develop a No.1 educational app in many iTunes stores. The Maths App has now gone on to become the cornerstone of the Onebillion charity initiative to bring education to marginalized children everywhere.

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Prototek

by Heather Laine on October 25, 2015 No comments

“Thank you for a great product. It has saved me hundreds of thousands of dollars of engineering budget. No question about it.”

That’s what Charlie Faddis, Technology Director and co-founder of Prototek told us. He went on to say:

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Feature Exchange Update

by Mark Waddingham on October 21, 2015 4 comments

During the last week of September we tried a new model to fund specific feature development for the LiveCode platform – The Feature Exchange. A simple crowd-funding platform, the idea was that we could raise money from the community to implement contained and specified features in a well estimated timescale.

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How LiveCode Lite Makes Computer Programming Ridiculously Simple

by Stephen Goldberg on October 15, 2015 4 comments

I am not a programmer. I am an educator and I have used many programming languages – going back to HyperCard – for their short learning curves, power, and ease of use. Over the years, I’ve used LiveCode to create many educational applications for the university and my publishing company, Medmaster. LiveCode has been enormously useful to create apps for Windows and Macintosh. For instance, the app “Atlas of Human Diseases,” which describes in pictures and text over 11,000 diseases in the world, could take a lifetime to do as a book, but it required only a few days with LiveCode.

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Stephen GoldbergHow LiveCode Lite Makes Computer Programming Ridiculously Simple