Changes over last 3 years

[xfratboy]

I have been out of the community for a good while now and I'm curious what has changed in the last couple of years. Particularly, what has changed in the areas of graphics an audio engines? When I was coding back in 2011~2012, the problem I had with Livecode were some deficiencies in graphics performance and lack of audio controls. For example, I had a little product that needed to have a volume control and channel balance feature. I ended up having to implement an external called EnhancedQT (not sure if that's still around) to control the left and right balance of audio files. I was using Livecode version 4.x back in the day. Would it greatly improve my old projects if I upgraded to the latest or greatest version of Livecode, in terms of graphics and media controls?

[Mark]

Hi,

The graphics engine was improved in version 5. There are now options for image controls, that affect the way LiveCode caches and renders these controls. Have a look at the layerMode property, for instance. Unfortunately, this didn't help me to get graphics intensive apps work on slow devices and to my experience it doesn't make much of a difference on fast devices. However, if you noticed that your app what just a little slow on a fast device, you may observe just sufficient improvement.

As far as I know, the EnhancedQT external has never been updated, except for shortly after its release.

Since LiveCode is open-source now, you can download it and see if it works better now.

Kind regards,

Mark