On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 3:39 AM, Richmond <richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 14/04/15 18:17, Geoff Canyon wrote: > >> PencilCase <http://www.pencilcase.io> has a player app on iOS >> <http://appstore.com/pencilcaseplayer> so you can: >> >> >> 1. Design your app on a Mac >> 2. Upload it to their system and get a code >> 3. Give that code to anyone >> 4. Anyone can install the PencilCase iOS app >> 5. Anyone can put in your code to run your app immediately. >> >> If they can do it, shouldn't LC be able to as well? Or is there something >> I'm not thinking of? >> _______________________________________________ >> >> > A few questions: > > 1. "upload it to their system": well, who are 'they'? > The PencilCase team. > > 2. "Anyone can install the PencilCase iOS app": really? I'll try on my G3 > iMac running Mac OS 9. > It's an iOS app, as I stated, so I'm not sure what your objection is. > > 2.1. "Anyone can install the PencilCase iOS app": really? I'll try on my > iPad 1. > This is a more reasonable objection, but the installed base of iPad 1s is what percent of the total market at this point? > > Your "anyone" is about as good as Marie Antoinette's "Let them eat cake". > This seems like pointless criticism. Did I offend you somehow? > > WHY should LC be able to do "that:? The whole thing looks awfully > restrictive > and end-users (apart from being dependent on a iPad) need to install > PencilCase. > Because it makes testing your iOS app almost trivial. In comparison to the many hoops to jump through that iOS imposes in general. > Now LC can distribute STANDALONES to all sorts of platforms. > PencilCase can create standalones as well. I was just curious about whether something had changed such that a LiveCode player app, which would make testing stacks on iOS much much easier, was possible. > To my mind LC looks like a better bet. I'm not comparing the two, I'm just curious about this bit of functionality because it seems like something that, technically, LC is well capable of. _______________________________________________ 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
