Re: Sharing widgets (was Re: Type on an angle)

[Kevin Miller]

As it happens we¹ve been talking about that very issue internally today
within our marketing team. This is a key priority for us, it has taken us
longer than we would have liked but it needs to be moved up the queue and
we will be doing that. I¹ll post something concrete on this next week. We
did start a sharing solution, its not quite ready to launch yet.

In the mean time, you can use the forum here as a stopgap
http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=93=28020

Kind regards,

Kevin

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On 22/11/2016, 16:03, "use-livecode on behalf of Paul Dupuis"

wrote:

>Could someone from the Mothership (i.e. LiveCode) weigh in on where
>people should publish LCB widgets?
>
>If Kevin really wants a 1000 widgets, then LiveCode really should
>designate an "official" place to put them or at least put links to them
>(if not the actual widgets themselves). As has been illustrated in this
>thread, some people want to host their widgets themselves and other want
>a place to upload them to, so both should be supported.
>
>I have no preference for whether this is a board on the Forum or the
>Sample Stacks or a web based repository or where ever, but before lots
>of widgets organically get deposited all over everywhere, where would
>LiveCode like them placed?
>
>
>
>
>On 11/22/2016 10:04 AM, zryip theSlug wrote:
>> Done with number 50. Thanks for the link.
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 4:38 PM, hh  wrote:
>> zyrip wrote: Where can I share it?
> Ben wrote: What is a good answer to zryip's question below,
> where should interesting third-party widgets be shared?
 Andy wrote: The widget could be uploaded as a zip to the
 Sample Stacks. There are a couple there already.
>>> If you mean snippets or widgets for the community, then
>>> you could write a post here (please number it as I did,
>>> so it's **easier to refer** to it):
>>>
>>> Community Snippets:
>>>http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=93=28225
>>> Community Widgets:
>>>http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=93=28020
>>>
>>> If the zip is less than 256 KByte you can also upload it to
>>> the forum.
>>> In "Sample Stacks"/livecodeshare there is currently one single
>>> _LCB widget_ (there are more LCS groups, also called 'widgets').
>>>
>>> This is my proposal:
>>> No matter where you upload it if not the forum: Please number the
>>> widget/snippet in a forum post in Community Widgets/Snippets and
>>> link there to the download location.
>>>
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Re: Sharing widgets (was Re: Type on an angle)

[Peter TB Brett]

On 22/11/2016 16:03, Paul Dupuis wrote:

Could someone from the Mothership (i.e. LiveCode) weigh in on where
people should publish LCB widgets?

If Kevin really wants a 1000 widgets, then LiveCode really should
designate an "official" place to put them or at least put links to them
(if not the actual widgets themselves). As has been illustrated in this
thread, some people want to host their widgets themselves and other want
a place to upload them to, so both should be supported.

I have no preference for whether this is a board on the Forum or the
Sample Stacks or a web based repository or where ever, but before lots
of widgets organically get deposited all over everywhere, where would
LiveCode like them placed?


Hi Paul,

For LiveCode 8, the original intention was that there would be an 
"extension store" area on the main website.  The idea was that it would 
provide a searchable index of LiveCode Builder extensions, with 
associated documentation, guides, examples, etc.  The IDE would know how 
to hook into the extension store.  It would take care of downloading and 
updating extensions for use in your apps, as well as publishing the 
extensions that you create.


Unfortunately, this ran into a few problems, and around November 2015 
the decision was made to drop the extension store feature from the 
LiveCode 8 release and focus on the other elements.  There were quite a 
few other things that didn't make the cut; for example, LiveCode 8.0 was 
originally planned to include the Objective C and Java FFI elements that 
we're currently working on in the Infinite LiveCode project.


At the moment, unfortunately, we don't have any concrete plans or 
timescale for resuming the extension store project -- which I think 
would deliver what several people are asking for.  Maybe there's an 
opening here for someone to deliver a "LiveCode extensions hub" website 
of their own?


If you're developing an open source widget or library, I personally 
would recommend creating a git repository for each extension you create 
-- not necessarily on GitHub, but anywhere that suits -- and storing 
your widget's files in it with roughly the same layout we use for the 
widgets we ship in LiveCode.  You could then start a thread about your 
widget on the LCB forum, or maybe post release announcements on this 
mailing list.


It would be very easy for people to install the widget, because most of 
the git hosting sites let you just download a zip of the files in the 
repository.  Unzip them, open the .lcb file in the extension builder, 
hit 'Package' and 'Install' -- done.


I don't think there's any official "best way to distribute widgets" 
guideline from LiveCode-the-company right now.  For myself, I'm enjoying 
seeing the various approaches that people are taking, and seeing what 
works and what doesn't.


Peter

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Re: Sharing widgets (was Re: Type on an angle)

[Paul Dupuis]

Could someone from the Mothership (i.e. LiveCode) weigh in on where
people should publish LCB widgets?

If Kevin really wants a 1000 widgets, then LiveCode really should
designate an "official" place to put them or at least put links to them
(if not the actual widgets themselves). As has been illustrated in this
thread, some people want to host their widgets themselves and other want
a place to upload them to, so both should be supported.

I have no preference for whether this is a board on the Forum or the
Sample Stacks or a web based repository or where ever, but before lots
of widgets organically get deposited all over everywhere, where would
LiveCode like them placed?




On 11/22/2016 10:04 AM, zryip theSlug wrote:
> Done with number 50. Thanks for the link.
>
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 4:38 PM, hh  wrote:
> zyrip wrote: Where can I share it?
 Ben wrote: What is a good answer to zryip's question below,
 where should interesting third-party widgets be shared?
>>> Andy wrote: The widget could be uploaded as a zip to the
>>> Sample Stacks. There are a couple there already.
>> If you mean snippets or widgets for the community, then
>> you could write a post here (please number it as I did,
>> so it's **easier to refer** to it):
>>
>> Community Snippets:
>>http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=93=28225
>> Community Widgets:
>>http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=93=28020
>>
>> If the zip is less than 256 KByte you can also upload it to
>> the forum.
>> In "Sample Stacks"/livecodeshare there is currently one single
>> _LCB widget_ (there are more LCS groups, also called 'widgets').
>>
>> This is my proposal:
>> No matter where you upload it if not the forum: Please number the
>> widget/snippet in a forum post in Community Widgets/Snippets and
>> link there to the download location.
>>
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Re: Sharing widgets (was Re: Type on an angle)

[zryip theSlug]

Done with number 50. Thanks for the link.

On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 4:38 PM, hh  wrote:
>> > > zyrip wrote: Where can I share it?
>> > Ben wrote: What is a good answer to zryip's question below,
>> > where should interesting third-party widgets be shared?
>> Andy wrote: The widget could be uploaded as a zip to the
>> Sample Stacks. There are a couple there already.
>
> If you mean snippets or widgets for the community, then
> you could write a post here (please number it as I did,
> so it's **easier to refer** to it):
>
> Community Snippets:
>http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=93=28225
> Community Widgets:
>http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=93=28020
>
> If the zip is less than 256 KByte you can also upload it to
> the forum.
> In "Sample Stacks"/livecodeshare there is currently one single
> _LCB widget_ (there are more LCS groups, also called 'widgets').
>
> This is my proposal:
> No matter where you upload it if not the forum: Please number the
> widget/snippet in a forum post in Community Widgets/Snippets and
> link there to the download location.
>
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Re: Sharing widgets (was Re: Type on an angle)

[Richard Gaskin]

AndyP wrote:

> Ben wrote:
>> What is a good answer to zryip's question below, where should
>> interesting third-party widgets be shared?
>
> The widget could be uploaded as a zip to the Sample Stacks.
> There are a couple there already.
>
> This would help to make the user widgets easier to find for all LC
> users.

Yep.

A file can of course be uploaded anywhere, but if we use the facility 
designed for sharing extensions it'll make things that much easier for 
everyone to find today, and in the future as the Sample Stacks/revOnline 
repo is updated.


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Re: Sharing widgets (was Re: Type on an angle)

[hh]

> > > zyrip wrote: Where can I share it?
> > Ben wrote: What is a good answer to zryip's question below,
> > where should interesting third-party widgets be shared?
> Andy wrote: The widget could be uploaded as a zip to the
> Sample Stacks. There are a couple there already.

If you mean snippets or widgets for the community, then
you could write a post here (please number it as I did,
so it's **easier to refer** to it):

Community Snippets:
   http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=93=28225
Community Widgets:
   http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=93=28020

If the zip is less than 256 KByte you can also upload it to
the forum.
In "Sample Stacks"/livecodeshare there is currently one single
_LCB widget_ (there are more LCS groups, also called 'widgets').

This is my proposal:
No matter where you upload it if not the forum: Please number the
widget/snippet in a forum post in Community Widgets/Snippets and
link there to the download location.

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Re: Sharing widgets (was Re: Type on an angle)

[AndyP]

The widget could be uploaded as a zip to the Sample Stacks.
There are a couple there already.

This would help to make the user widgets easier to find for all LC users.



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Sharing widgets (was Re: Type on an angle)

[Ben Rubinstein]

This sounds great! I don't know the correct answer to the question, but I'd 
certainly like to see the widget. If nothing else perhaps you could share a 
dropboxlink or similar with the list.


What is a good answer to zryip's question below, where should interesting 
third-party widgets be shared?


Ben

On 20/11/2016 13:07, zryip theSlug wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The only widget I created so far is an orientable text with the
> following properties:
> - label
> - angle
> - font name
> - font size
> - font color
> - font color opacity
> - background color
> - background opacity
>
> I created it long time ago with the very first LC version supporting
> widgets and have updated the code for following the LCB syntax
> changes. I've stopped to play with widgets after this, so the code is
> far to be neat but I can share it if someone need it or want to
> improve it.
>
> Where can I share it?
>
>
> Best Regards,
>

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