Hey everyone! At the RunRevLive 2011 conference I gave a talk on custom controls and demonstrated an easy to use method of adding custom controls to your stacks. It received a lot of great feedback, and so I've worked on it over the last five weeks and now have a really great LiveCode add-on called "DropTools Palette".
The DropTools Palette makes using custom controls a dream - you just drop a "DropTool" stack into a folder and then from the palette you just drag and drop the control onto your stack - any behavior buttons, resources, images, and code is automatically installed without you having to do anything! The DropTools Palette also supports custom controls that use a library by automatically installing and putting into use the library that it needs to operate. Developing a DropTool is really easy - in fact if you have a pre-scripted control you'd like to turn into a DropTool, it can be as easy as dropping it onto a stack, setting a couple of properties and then saving the stack in the right folder! DropTool developers can even add a custom property inspector for their DropTool to help the user configure it, or provide an About Box for info or online documentation! The DropTools web site not only is a place to download the palette, but also to acquire new DropTool stacks as they are created. The web site is also a place to go to find out about *any* custom controls that have been made available to the LiveCode community, whether they be in DropTool format or not. (I'll be keeping up with announcements and updating the site accordingly.) The DropTools Palette comes with two custom controls you can use to get started - a PromptField and the stsImageWell control, but there are more at the DropTools site, and I will make announcements when more DropTools have been made available. For more info and to download the DropTools Palette, go to: http://droptools.sonsothunder.com/index.irev Enjoy! Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
