Can Livecode be used to do this...?

[Roderic]

I'm looking at different possible projects and was wondering if LC could do this...

Can LC be used to create graphics programs? i.e. logo creators, or icon creating software. Two come to mind, Icon Studio and the Logo Creator from the Mac App Store. Is it possible to create something like what those programs do?

Thanks,
Roderic

[Klaus]

Hi Roderic,

as much as I love LC, but I don't think LC (alone, without any external!) is well suited for these tasks!


Best

Klaus

[Roderic]

Klaus, Thanks for the quick reply.

Can LC be used to create Zillow type programs? Basically scraping publicly available data and reformatting it for an app?

Thanks,
Roderic

[Klaus]

Hi Roderic,

Can LC be used to create Zillow type programs? Basically scraping publicly available data and reformatting it for an app?

no idea what Zillow might be, but defintively YES to the second sentence


Best

Klaus

[Roderic]

Hi Klaus,

Can you guide me where to find any tutorials that would show how to retrieve info from public data sites.
I found examples using xml feeds but that is just for news type sites. Extracting info from a site that displays data from a database, that is what I'd like to learn.

Thanks again, I appreciate it.

Roderic

[Klaus]

HI Roderic,

Can you guide me where to find any tutorials that would show how to retrieve info from public data sites.
I found examples using xml feeds but that is just for news type sites. Extracting info from a site that displays data from a database, that is what I'd like to learn.

sorry, I have no idea what "public data sites" you are talking about!?
Please provide some links and we will help you to extract whatever data you are looking for

In the meantime you might want to take a look at these stacks:
http://www.hyperactivesw.com/revscriptc ... ences.html


Best

Klaus

[Newbie4]

Aside from databases, you can obtain information publicly using APIs then combining the data into a mashup (a web page or application created by combining data or functionality from different sources).

I have briefly started documenting the process with a few good links and small, simple lessons. Look at Section 3 on this page: https://sites.google.com/a/pgcps.org/li ... rogramming

I will be adding some more student examples very shortly now. This may not be what you are looking for, but it is a start