Re: Programming LiveCode with LiveCode

2014-10-19 Thread Jim Lambert
Larry wrote: > it will be easier to deal with those differences by just developing apps > that run within a browser. Because don't both Android and iOS both run > browsers? Absolutely. If your application’s features can be achieved as a web app running in a browser, that will be the most univ

Re: Programming LiveCode with LiveCode

2014-10-16 Thread Bob Sneidar
That sounds like what Sun said when they released Java! And look what happened. Bob S On Oct 16, 2014, at 10:32 , Jim Lambert mailto:j...@netrin.com>> wrote: I am of the opinion that all of the platform/device specific approach to software is going the way of the dinosaur. ___

Re: Programming LiveCode with LiveCode

2014-10-16 Thread Richard Gaskin
Jim Lambert wrote: > Larry wrote: > >> I am of the opinion that all of the platform/device specific >> approach to software is going the way of the dinosaur. > > That may be true with desktop software, but I respectfully disagree > when it comes to mobile. > > There’s ever-growing fragmentation o

Re: Programming LiveCode with LiveCode

2014-10-16 Thread larry
Hi Jim, I'm not trying to argue (don't know enough.) But what you say below (I put in italics) seems only to underscore what I believe: that it will be easier to deal with those differences by just developing apps that run within a browser. Because don't both Android and iOS both run browsers?

Re: Programming LiveCode with LiveCode

2014-10-16 Thread Jim Lambert
Larry wrote: > I am of the opinion that all of the platform/device specific approach to > software is going the way of the dinosaur. That may be true with desktop software, but I respectfully disagree when it comes to mobile. There’s ever-growing fragmentation on Android, sometimes the develo

Re: Programming LiveCode with LiveCode

2014-10-15 Thread JB
This is FANTASTIC! John Balgenorth On Oct 15, 2014, at 8:09 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > JB wrote: > > > There are many powerful tools in foundation. I am not > > sure how difficult it would be but it would be a great if > > instead of making a few really good changes to LiveCode > > with fou

Re: Programming LiveCode with LiveCode

2014-10-15 Thread J. Landman Gay
On October 15, 2014 5:25:55 AM CDT, la...@significantplanet.org wrote: >I'm working with a guy right now who is taking my "clunky" LC Windows >prototype and rewriting it so that it will run in any browser. He >tells me >that he can code it so that the program automatically detects the >screen

Re: Programming LiveCode with LiveCode

2014-10-15 Thread Richard Gaskin
JB wrote: > There are many powerful tools in foundation. I am not > sure how difficult it would be but it would be a great if > instead of making a few really good changes to LiveCode > with foundation and GCD etc that they opened the doors > so anyone could access the tools in foundation from t

Re: Programming LiveCode with LiveCode

2014-10-15 Thread larry
e the example(s) the author wrote, but add my own notes and examples right into the dictionary. Well, we can dream can't we? - Original Message - From: "JB" To: "How to use LiveCode" Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2014 3:26 AM Subject: Programming LiveCode with Liv

Programming LiveCode with LiveCode

2014-10-15 Thread JB
There have been hints that in the near future it will be possible to program LiveCode with LiveCode like you write scripts for your stacks. Now that foundation has been added they have been updating LiveCode and it sounds like they are using Grand Central Dispatch for some of the graphics. There