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Infinite LiveCode – The First Stretch Goal – SQLite Library

by Mark Waddingham on May 20, 2016 3 comments

SQLite databases are used ubiquitously in modern applications. Whether they be used as caches for downloaded data (so apps can run offline), as a file format for document editing apps or just for persistent data storage. Indeed, we feel that they are so important that they deserve their own clean, modern, high-level set of functions in LiveCode Script to access directly – rather than going through revDB.

For this Infinite LiveCode stretch goal we propose to:

Provide gyp-based descriptions of building the SQLite native code library.
Wrap the SQLite API using Infinite LiveCode to allow it to be used directly from Builder
Write a Builder module which allows usage of SQLite databases easily from Builder
Write a Builder library module which exposes a high-level API for manipulating SQLite databases directly from Script

Trevor DeVore interviews Kevin & Mark on Infinite LiveCode

by Steven Crighton on May 19, 2016 No comments

The LiveCode community is vital to the success of our platform. We want to ensure the community voice is heard loud and clear. To this end, we approached a leading and respected member of the LiveCode community known for his outstanding contributions and for his extremely successful LiveCode built apps.

We asked Trevor DeVore, Director of Technology at ScreenSteps if he would like to interview Kevin & Mark, asking all the questions that he might have as an active LiveCode community member. Trevor kindly agreed and came up with some excellent questions which we are sure will be of interest to a wide audience!

What does Infinite LiveCode mean for users of the platform?

by Steven Crighton on May 18, 2016 No comments

Unless you have been avoiding your mailbox recently you will know that LiveCode 8 has launched with the first iteration of LiveCode widgets written in the LiveCode Builder Language. LiveCode 8 marks the beginning of the new for the LiveCode platform.

Today, LiveCode lets us build powerful applications faster. We have a powerful and productive programming language that is close to the way we speak and think, we have a tool that enables rapid app development, we can deploy apps to all major platforms from one code base. Imagine if we had a thriving extensions EcoSystem with thousands of useful widgets and libraries that you can use in your application without the need to expand your team size or programming ability. As things stand you can open up LiveCode and drag out useful objects, customise them in the Property Inspector and you have a fully functioning object that would have required hand coding in previous versions. This will forever be useful but it does leave you wanting more, more widgets, more functionality, more usefulness, more productivity.

Introducing the Infinite LiveCode campaign.

What does Infinite LiveCode mean to you, as an end user? Suppose you do not yourself feel you have the time, ability or inclination to write new widgets or extensions for the platform, how does it benefit you?

A gift from the community for the community

by Todd Fabacher on May 17, 2016 4 comments

To add an extra boost to our Infinite LiveCode campaign, Digital Pomegranate is offering an incentive of infinite possibilities. If we reach our core goal of $40,000 by Friday, Todd Fabacher and Digital Pomegranate will open source to the community their complete WordPress framework. This has taken them a year and cost over $50,000 to research, design and code.

This generous offer will allow LiveCoders to develop ecommerce applications using LiveCode, to update WordPress websites directly using a LiveCode application, to develop survey applications using Gravity forms and many other new benefits that Digital Pomegranate are happy to share with the LiveCode community should we hit this target.

Over to you Todd…