Over the last couple of months I’ve been diving into some of the new widgets and libraries that have come to LiveCode. I’ve shown you all about building powerful tables using PolyGrid. I’ve demonstrated how easy it is to produce beautiful scrolling lists with PolyList, I even created a replica of the Airbnb list. I’ve put the spotlight on the new Responsive Layout library and it was looking very good indeed whilst making light work of changing layouts as the window size changed. I took you international when showing off the new i18n library to easily manage the translation of our apps into different languages. I’ve demonstrated that even the simplest of widgets such as Circle Avatar can save time on those repeatable tasks we do time and time again. Lastly, I showed you that buttons can be beautiful with the new Power Button widget.
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by Mark Wieder on August 15, 2022 No commentsOne of the great things about LiveCode is how flexible it is. You can build your own custom IDE elements to optimize your work flow, or you can try out tools created by other LiveCoders. PowerTools is one such tool.
An Alternative Tools Palette
PowerTools is a drop-in replacement plugin for the IDE’s tool palette. It’s an upgrade in three areas:
- Separation of controls / graphics / widgets
- Persistent graphic tool properties
- Widget visualization and organization
App Architecture Discoveries
by Heather Laine on August 11, 2022 No commentsIn this blog over the last few weeks we’ve talked a lot about the various new addons that have become available for LiveCode. (And these are great.) Another part of your MegaBundle download is in danger of being overlooked however, and that is the two great books by Andre Garzia.
As a non-coder, I have been tasked with reviewing them, and my first comment is – I’m actually enjoying reading these books. They are interesting, they are clear, and they are hugely helpful to any new or even moderately experienced LiveCoder. I’m betting there are some tips in these books even our longest standing and most skilled LiveCoders could learn from.
I’m going to focus on LiveCode App Architecture in this post, and hopefully I will be able to review Development Oriented Development at a later date.
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by Heather Laine on August 10, 2022 No commentsWe are delighted to announce the release of 9.6.9 RC-1. The major feature of this release is support for Android API 31, which is now a requirement for submitting new apps to the Google Play Store.
NEW FEATURES
The Android engine is now built using version 31 of the Android API.
Options to add audio related permissions to android apps have been added to the standalone builder. read moreBuilding an AirBnb Style List with LiveCode
by Steven Crighton on August 4, 2022 2 commentsWith the release of the new PolyList widget, building lists in LiveCode just got a whole lot more powerful. PolyList is a LiveCode widget designed to allow you to build the style of list you want. This could be anything from a simple single column text list to a full blown image gallery list. (You can learn more about PolyList itself here.) This article is a hands on follow along tutorial to show you how to build one specific list style.
Why Airbnb?
I recently set out to build a list that is found on one of the most popular web apps around. I figured if users are going to use PolyList to build web apps then it should be capable of building the best lists on the web. I’m talking about AirBnb, it’s a thing of beauty and I am going to show you exactly how I built it. (If you couldn’t care less about how I built it but still want it, I can relate to that! The example stack is included with the PolyList download via the Extensions Store. Just grab it and use it.)
read moreA Mobile UI for LiveCode
by Heather Laine on July 28, 2022 2 commentsI recently had the opportunity to interview Bill Hankins, the creator of Litecode. I asked him to tell me all about this great little plugin for LiveCode!
What is Litecode?
Litecode is a Mobile Development Environment created with and based on LiveCode. Litecode can be used as a mobile standalone application to write and test Livecode code on your phone or tablet. Litecode users can write, edit, and test entire projects on a mobile device. Projects can be saved and reopened later for continued production. Litecode comes with an export stack that users can open in the LiveCode IDE to transfer their Litecode mobile work to their desktop LiveCode IDE for finalizing and exporting to standalone versions.
read morePolyList Widget – in the Spotlight
by Steven Crighton on July 26, 2022 37 commentsI’m excited to write about this widget! I’ve really enjoyed playing with it over the last few weeks and challenging it to discover the styles of lists that I can produce with it. I can say confidently, any style of vertical scrolling list I have tried to build with it, I’ve been successful with. Let’s jump in.
PolyList – it’s a new LiveCode widget that allows you to display your data in a custom list view. You can build single or multi column lists that can contain text, images, SVGs and color fills, and you have full control over the style and position of everything. Take a look at this short video to get a sense of the incredibly cool lists you can build in LiveCode with PolyList.
XLSX Lib – A Bonus Library Included with Excel Library in the MegaBundle Offer
by Zryip The Slug on July 21, 2022 No commentsI recently finished the last touches on a new solution around spreadsheets.
Excel Library is already capable of great things with Excel such as creating new workbooks, worksheets, charts or defining a complex pivot table directly from LiveCode. The drawback is, it requires MS Excel on the device to work.
Not any more!
This is where the XLSX Lib comes in. It creates new xlsx files from scratch, which can be opened and used by MS Excel, Open Office, Google Sheets and even Numbers as well. If it can open xlsx files, it will be able to handle the files generated by XLSX Lib.
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