As the year draws to a close, I wanted to take a moment to share where we’re at with LiveCode Create – and where we’re headed next.
It’s been a busy time for the team, and we’ve made some real strides. Our focus has been on four key areas: Data, Deployment, Docs, and Refinement—the building blocks for making Create as powerful as it is easy to use.
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Our current Holiday Season offer features a limited edition set of LiveCode books. What makes them a limited edition is the special cover design featuring onebillion, and the donation we are making from each sale to this organisation.
But who are onebillion, and why are we supporting them?
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First 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.
read moreRejected ideas for this blogpost:
a) A meditation on the validity or otherwise of an oft-repeated quote attributed to Dick Brandon on the utility of documentation, whilst delicately avoiding the object of the quote’s comparison.
b) A rehash of Tony Blair’s 2001 speech on education, with the word education replaced everywhere by the word documentation, Labour with LiveCode, etc etc, you see where I’m going with that.
c) An entire blog post written in the style of the documentation format, with some kind of tortured wordplay involving the words “meta” and “documentation” as the title.
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