On 08/11/2015 12:21 PM, Richmond wrote:
On 11/08/15 21:46, Peter M. Brigham wrote:
May be conducting a parents' night in which you demonstrate something
simple with livecode to show its ease of access and manageable
learning curve, then rope the kids in to show off what they have done,
and finally summarize the advanced projects that people have used it
for. In my experience, mentioning that LC powers the Landsat 7
satellite data collection enterprise usually gets people to sit up and
open their eyes. Lots of similar applications mentioned on the LC
website.
Right: with Wine and cheese.
Smashing idea!
... and if it helps any, tell them that I have used LC in a commercial
application to interpolate between a database that doesn't understand
Windows ActiveX objects and Quickbooks, using the text and xml
processing capabilities of LiveCode to talk to a C++ shim that in turn
talks to the Quickbooks COM library.
database
<--> text files
<--> LiveCode
<--> C++ shim
<--> Quickbooks COM object
<--> Quickbooks
It's not the weirdest thing I've put together, but it's close.
Could have done the whole thing in C++, but it would have taken five
times as long to develop and debug and not been nearly as readable nor
maintainable.
--
Mark Wieder
ahsoftw...@gmail.com
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