Building an AirBnb Style List with LiveCode

by Steven Crighton on August 4, 2022 2 comments

With 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.)

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Steven CrightonBuilding an AirBnb Style List with LiveCode

A Mobile UI for LiveCode

by Heather Laine on July 28, 2022 2 comments

I 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.

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PolyList Widget – in the Spotlight

by Steven Crighton on July 26, 2022 37 comments

I’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.

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Steven CrightonPolyList Widget – in the Spotlight

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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Panagiotis MerakosLiveCode 9.6.8 Stable: M1 and Onwards Apple Architecture Support

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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