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Apparently, this author does not know about LiveCode. I did write to him today. http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20190722-the-apple-software-that-inspired-the-internet Linda

Re: Apple's 30%--anyway around it?

This is close to what my original app would do and it was turned down by Apple (way back when). However, the app was not crippled. I offered a fair amount of free content and so it worked fine for those eBooks. The free eBooks did not have a "registration" or verification process. It was a fr

Re: Apple's 30%--anyway around it?

Thank you, Sean and J. Landman Gay. I have not kept up with Apple's policy's since I closed the business. Using both Sean and J. Landman Gay's info, I think that I can make it work! I am excited and relieved. All of the eBooks would not be interactive other than using HTML, JavaScript and CS

Re: Apple's 30%--anyway around it?

>First you develop a business selling ebooks that does not utilize the AppStore. >You sell online and the ebooks are useable on macOS, Windows, Android, web >browser. Your proposal sounds as if I should spend many years developing a company and selling products for platforms that I am not reall

Apple's 30%--anyway around it?

I used to create apps and ebooks years and years ago for PDAs. The only reason that I closed my business was Apple. Let me explain. I would contract with authors of books to publish an electronic version of their book. This was a new thing back then. I also had a website where I sold the app

RE: Open source iOS and Android

Thank you, BR, for the suggestion! "Do you know GIT? A lot of us (developers) have "stuff on GIT" . You do a deep search through mailings Search for "https://github.com/ " Linda ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.ru

RE: Open source iOS and Android

My original question is about the Community version of LC. If apps built with it are supposed to be open source, is there a "place" where the developers "share" their apps. How do we know what people have created in order to request a copy? I personally would like to "meet" other developers o

Open source iOS and Android

It is my understanding that apps created with the Community version of LiveCode are open source. If so, how to you know what apps on the apps stores (Apple and Google) are created with LiveCode and how do you request a copy of the source code? I have never published a LC app and am still in th

Displaying HTML pages

I have several ebooks that are composed using HTML/CSS and maybe some JavaScript. I know that I can use HTMLtext to display the pages. For example, on mouseUp put url "http://www.mobgui.com"; into temp set the htmlText of field "test" to temp end mouseUp But, this displays only black text