Re: Running LiveCode on Google Chrome Books

2013-06-24 Thread Mark Wilcox
Mike Kerner wrote: > The new units also have a certain amount of local storage for using with > Google Drive. > The chromebook is designed mainly to be a lightweight, fast, cheap, > high-battery life machine for running HTML5.  The main weakness, IMHO, is > that it is about 5 years late because i

Re: Running LiveCode on Google Chrome Books

2013-06-24 Thread Mark Rauterkus
Hi, Thinking more, but sorta selfishly. Our LC based camp attendance application could "operate" on a Chrome Book with a teacher in the field should we make some changes, it seems. What this means is we make the content of the app into a Read Only presentation (perhaps PDF) and the stuff th

Re: Running LiveCode on Google Chrome Books

2013-06-24 Thread Roger Eller
Here's a nice demo of a Chrome book running Ubuntu (for ARM). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AmkViFJbAg ~Roger On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Roger Eller wrote: > Perhaps when we have an Arm version of LiveCode. It looks like a 'true' > OS can be installed on Chrome book hardware. See Chr

Re: Running LiveCode on Google Chrome Books

2013-06-23 Thread Mike Kerner
The new units also have a certain amount of local storage for using with Google Drive. The chromebook is designed mainly to be a lightweight, fast, cheap, high-battery life machine for running HTML5. The main weakness, IMHO, is that it is about 5 years late because ipads and android tablets are f

Re: Running LiveCode on Google Chrome Books

2013-06-23 Thread Roger Eller
Perhaps when we have an Arm version of LiveCode. It looks like a 'true' OS can be installed on Chrome book hardware. See ChrUbuntu. http://chromeos-cr48.blogspot.com�; ~Roger Sent from my Pipo M2 On Jun 23, 2013 12:41 PM, "Richmond" wrote: > On 06/23/2013 05:39 PM, Mike Kerner wrote: > >> Yo

Re: Running LiveCode on Google Chrome Books

2013-06-23 Thread Richmond
On 06/23/2013 05:39 PM, Mike Kerner wrote: You can't. Chromebooks are running Chromium, which is just enough OS to get you into a browser (and a very minimal file system). I have just fired up Chromium in VMware player and can see that it is not really what I would call an operating system

Re: Running LiveCode on Google Chrome Books

2013-06-23 Thread Mike Kerner
You can't. Chromebooks are running Chromium, which is just enough OS to get you into a browser (and a very minimal file system). On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Ian Wood wrote: > I thought you could only run web apps on Chromebooks, not native code? > > Ian > > On 22 Jun 2013, at 16:48, Mark

Re: Running LiveCode on Google Chrome Books

2013-06-22 Thread Ian Wood
I thought you could only run web apps on Chromebooks, not native code? Ian On 22 Jun 2013, at 16:48, Mark Rauterkus wrote: > Hi, > > Anyone have any insights on running a LiveCode standalone on Google > Chromebooks? > > > > -- > Ta. > > > Mark Rauterkus mark.rauter...@gmail.com > __