LiveCode 8.1 – A major minor release

by Peter Brett on September 12, 2016 5 comments

Back in May 2016 we released LiveCode 8, a massive step forward for the LiveCode ecosystem with new externals, new extensibility with LiveCode Builder widgets, and a new and improved IDE.

Today we’re pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 8.1, which builds on the LiveCode 8 foundation to bring dozens of new features, better performance, and some developer-assisting improvements that’ll just make your life a bit easier – not to mention 200 bug fixes.

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tsNet: New Networking Capabilities for LiveCode

by Charles Warwick on September 9, 2016 2 comments

Starting with the 8.1.0 DP3 release, LiveCode commercial editions include a new networking external, tsNet, that enhances the existing networking capabilities of LiveCode. tsNet utilises the curl networking library to provide a full suite of functions for both synchronous and asynchronous transfers using HTTP(S), FTP(S), SFTP and SMTP(S) protocols. This is good news for LiveCode developers as along with the support of new protocols, all transfer types can be performed in a non-blocking manner with callback support.

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