How is HTML5 development going? When will it be released? For months your questions have flooded our inboxes, forums, and social channels. We understand: HTML5 is certainly an exciting prospect. Developing a cross platform application for mobile or desktop – or even both – has made LiveCode into a hugely popular tool. Adding web deployment to that list is another leap in the right direction and it will save time and costs for LiveCode users. So how is HTML5 going? When will it be released?
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Write a Widget in 8 Steps
by Georgia Hutchings on April 30, 2015 15 commentsEver thought that your LiveCode project could be improved by a custom control? Perhaps you want to add a rounded rectangle push button to your stack, where the border color is different to the text color? Maybe you’re thinking of building an app with 10 cards, and each card needs a header bar, and each header bar needs a label, a button, a background graphic, a line graphic… Getting tired just thinking about it? Enter widgets.
Widgets are controls that can be dragged from the tools palette and dropped onto your stack. In LiveCode 8, users now have the ability to write their own custom controls, or widgets, in the new LiveCode Builder language. The purpose of this article is to guide you through the widget writing process in LiveCode Builder, from the very start to using your end product in a LiveCode stack.
read moreMidnight Rises Is the New Black
by Jana Doughty on January 29, 2015 10 comments
Midnight Rises, the interactive graphic novel created in LiveCode, launches today. So we sat down with Alex Seropian, Industrial Toys CEO and Official Programmer of Midnight Rises, to ask him about his experience in creating a graphic novel and using LiveCode.
read moreDocumentation, Documentation, Documentation
by Ali Lloyd on January 22, 2015 14 commentsRejected 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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