What about Mike Doub’s MasterLibrary? I just tried it in latest LC, and it fails because there is a function named a reserved word. But, it seems like a valuable resource that might be used as a starting point? Best, Bill
William Prothero, PhD Professor Emeritus University of California, Santa Barbara http://earthlearningsolutions.org > On Jun 21, 2017, at 8:03 AM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Kevin, > > Thanks for jumping in, very inspiring work you have all been doing recently. > One has to wonder if anyone sleeps in Edinborough! > > I've been having a running conversation with Richard on how to make small > solutions available to the whole community, in the spirit of "this would make > adoption of LC as a platform more tenable." I had ideas about how to turn > that into revenue for LC company also, But Richard pointed out the I was a > bit naïve on ROI (which I was/am) but that is a different discussion. > > Simply put: one can enter google "SQL Query Descending Order" and get 100's > of hits with examples. > OR (different context entirely but…_) > Go to the Unity plug in store and find 1000+ plugins (open source) free or > from 2.99 to 99.99. > > Newbies and even us "old timers" need a leg up on "how to" with > > a) examples scripts > b) actual LC native binary stacks as demos. > c) script only behaviors attached to custom controls > (I'm only getting into this now… awesome potential for "plug-ins) > c) central respository/index of some kind > d) ways we all can contribute. > > presently key info is fragmented across. > > 1) dictionary (no or very few robust examples) > 2) API tab > 3) on line lessons (many of which are obsolete) > 4) answers in the email list > 5) forum treads > 6) blogs > 7) Course (different from on line lessons?) > 8) various develop web site where they off there "stuff" for free > 9) Rev-online > 9) behind paywalls like Global Connect > > So, fantastic work you are doing! Indeed, but please consider the "high > level" documentation/indexing/global LC knowledge base as important a key > feature to develop for the platform as new "deep tech" features. > > Brahmanathaswami > > > On 6/20/17, 8:06 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of Kevin Miller via > use-livecode" <use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com on behalf of > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Sooner would have been better. However just in case you missed it, the > architecture has been available to play with for many months and a native > field for Android is doable in 9-dp-7 posted last week. You have to change > a few words in Ali¹s native button LCB file - he explained which ones in > his talk. We¹ll follow with a blog post on that too shortly. There is a > widget course available https://livecode.com/topic/introduction-2/ now > which covers getting started with widgets. We will add in the info about > the FFI layer to that course shortly. We will also modify the object Ali > supplied to cover a whole variety of other native controls from the tools > palette given each is just a tweak to that LCB. Its all in there and open > source right now. Objective-C (and thus iOS) will be in DP 8. > > Kind regards, > > Kevin > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
