XLSX Lib – A Bonus Library Included with Excel Library in the MegaBundle Offer

by Zryip The Slug on July 21, 2022 No comments

I 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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AppStarterStack: Why it’s great for your projects

by Heather Laine on July 18, 2022 3 comments

To help you understand what AppStarterStack is, and how you might use it in your projects, I recently interviewed its creator, Tom Glod. Here is what he told me.

What is AppStarterStack?

AppStarterStack is a LiveCode stack that is meant to act as a starting point for production-grade desktop and mobile applications.  It contains 100s of functions, commands and handlers which you no longer have to source or write yourself.  It is also filled with examples of how those functions and commands are used to make an ‘application’.

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LiveCode 9.6.8 Stable: M1 and Onwards Apple Architecture Support

by Panagiotis Merakos on July 8, 2022 2 comments

We are delighted to announce the release of 9.6.8 Stable. The major feature of this release is support for the latest Apple Architecture, meaning you no longer need to run LiveCode under Rosetta 2 on the newest Mac OS’s. There are also a number of fixes and enhancements, including resolution of the version number reporting issue introduced with MacOS Big Sur.

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i18n Library – in the Spotlight

by Steven Crighton on July 6, 2022 7 comments

Hello, Hola, Bonjour, Ciao, Γεια, Halò and welcome to another edition of in the Spotlight. We’re looking at the new i18n library from LiveCode. If the intro did not give this away this library is all about internationalization. i18n allows you to easily handle language translations inside your application. Let’s dive in…

First, why i18n? It’s a question I had when I first saw this new library. It turns out, Internationalization just takes too darn long to type, so if you count the number of letters between the first i and the last n in the word you reach 18. There, now it makes sense. Take a look at this short demo video.

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Enhancements Bundle Lesson Series

by Heather Laine on July 5, 2022 No comments

We’re really excited to be introducing the brand new Enhancements bundle to the LiveCode community. This raft of new acquisitions are busy getting fully integrated into the LiveCode ecosystem, and part of that integration is having lessons written on how to use them. After all, a feature is only as useful as your ability to use it!

Today we have published the first in the series, showing you how to install and get started with the Magic Palette included in your bundle.

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Circle Avatar Widget – In the Spotlight

by Steven Crighton on July 1, 2022 No comments

How often do you find yourself repeating the same task over and over again? Creating a circle profile picture in LiveCode is a pretty straightforward task but this beautifully simple widget makes it even easier.

Next up in the Spotlight is the Circle Avatar Widget from LiveCode. This new widget allows you to create profile avatars that match the features found in today’s account areas.

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Power Button widget – in the Spotlight

by Steven Crighton on June 29, 2022 No comments

Of course you can create your own buttons in LiveCode, customize them yourself in a multitude of ways, and get them pixel perfect for every platform. But why reinvent the wheel, or in this case the button? Just use this great widget for professional UI’s across the board. 

The Power Button easy to use and highly customisable widget allows you to create beautiful modern buttons that work whilst continuing to look great across all deployment platforms.

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Best Practice for API Keys and Security

by Mark Waddingham on June 27, 2022 1 comment

The question of security when using API Keys is something that comes up fairly often, so I thought it would be useful to write a blog post covering what I believe to be best practice when using these keys.

I have come across three kinds of API key in practice:

 1) API keys intended to be used from web pages (in client-side code)

 2) API keys intended to be used in deployed apps

 3) API keys intended to be used for doing secure things

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