Folks, This is just a little email to show some appreciation for Ken Ray, Richard Gaskin, Chipp Walters, Mark Wieder and Jerry Daniels.
Kens XML Lib saved my life many times but what I want to talk right now is about DropTools. Since I installed it, I became much happier and I am already thinking about building and sharing new controls. The architecture is easy and simple just the way it should be. Ken, Drop Tools Rock! (I wish I could replace LiveCode toolbar with DropTools toolbar and have a single place to drag controls from) Yesterday, I dusted up my old G4 and went for source code hunting. I lost a lot of data some years ago when both my intel machines fried up at the same time (the main development machine and the main backup clone, two identical macbooks, both fried). So while I was recovering from my bad Lion installation, I decided to go back to the G4 to fish for some tools I liked. The G4 booted fine and Revolution 2.7 launched with GLX2 (I also found constellation there) man that editor is GREAT, Jerry should really be proud and Mark too. I've installed the newly patched GLX2 on my Mac and it is great. Talking about Jerry, there is a little tool that he made that I think is really great, it is a simple thing but it is really useful and it is Time Gadget. Time Gadget is a time tracking tool that is compatible with altToolbar. I used that all the time and will keep using it indefinitely probably. I think it is a great example of building really useful tools, Jerry makes products with great usability, I wish he would still maintain TimeGadget or consider giving it to some developer to maintain, it is a great tool. Marks recent work with GLX2 and PowerDebug adds a lot of power to our development cycle. How many times I wished for some feature to be present in LiveCode built in debugger... now, most of them are in PowerDebug :-) Yay!!!!! I've already talked about altToolbar many times but I think many in the LiveCode community are not aware of it. Chipps altToolbar is to plugins what DropTools is to controls. Man, so many great plugins. I still use magic carpet, interface designer and time gadget. I have my own silly plugins as well thanks to Chipps insight in creating an extensible architecture for altToolbar. Well, I got my first contract thanks to Richards beyond the browser article but that is another tale, right now I am thinking about Devolution toolkit. It is a simple extensible toolset, not unlike altToolbar with some great stuff inside. I know Richard still works in it and may release an update someday but the current Devolution incarnation is very good. The only thing I miss is an updated form maker... I loose a lot of time building forms in LiveCode... During the recent years we had an influx of many new users who never used these tools, many who are not aware that these tools exist. My advise to the new guys and gals here is: Grab them, use them! and to all the authors, you guys rock!!!! Cheers andre -- http://www.andregarzia.com All We Do Is Code. _______________________________________________ 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
