Re: Native Controls - iOS and Android
by rinzwind » Wed Feb 08, 2017 6:20 pm
It is too slow indeed. The language doesnt get any enhancements too. What they could add? Just look at the SenseTalk dev manual... byref vars, dot notation, dynamic property lists, assign multiple values at once, sql as a language construct, simple things as iso date format, date calculations, ...
O and the datagrid is so slow its useless. Bug has been open for half a year. Also the code of that control hmmm and not too friendly. Seems they bought it and never reviewed it. I do respect the work that the one original developer put into it though. But really, LC needs something else.
Oke enough rambling for today. Reorientate LC team.. those controls all look the same like many years ago. Not improved in any way. One would expect a password field by now, and some kind of interactive input mask. All set through properties. And native looking mobile controls... that work.
Ps the link to SenseTalk good organized dev doc:
http://docs.testplant.com/PDFs/SenseTal ... erence.pdf
rinzwind
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Re: Livecode still way too slow....
Maybe interesting to look into... B4X . Have a promotion going on too for few days (40% off).
http://www.b4x.com Desktop is free (uses Java in a relatively Good Way), iOS and Android are payed. Visual Basic 6 users will recognise the language which helps feel @home
Just to have some options if yo...
by rinzwind
Fri Feb 10, 2017 12:17 pm
Re: Livecode still way too slow....
It is too slow indeed. The language doesnt get any enhancements too. What they could add? Just look at the SenseTalk dev manual... byref vars, dot notation, dynamic property lists, assign multiple values at once, sql as a language construct, simple things as iso date format, date calculations, ... O...
by rinzwind
Wed Feb 08, 2017 6:20 pm
Re: Not working as expected?
It is daring to ask money for a feature that is nowhere near ready for production... and wont be for the forthseeing future.
by rinzwind
Sun Jan 29, 2017 6:55 pm
Re: Sound latency
Late reply... Even there you have latency. Its bad that theres still no way to have robust instant sound playback. The app just pauses a fraction of a second while the sound is loaded, even when the same sound has already played dozens of times.
by rinzwind
Fri Jan 13, 2017 11:04 am
Re: Create a platformer game via LiveCode?
Just another option for anyone interested... The scripting language Lua (
http://www.lua.org/about.html) in combination with Corona or Love2D seems supported and used too (ie one can find many games in the wild build with this, frequently source is available too.. in contrast to lc..). For a Lua IDE ...
by rinzwind
Sun Nov 27, 2016 10:52 am
Why LCB exists?
Shouldn't it be possible to use the main programming/scripting language itself to produce widgets for it?... VB6 did it, Delphi and c# does it. Its reinventing the wheel and doesnt look good for LiveCode Script (since it should be flexible/fast enough to handle it) plus compiler design is not someth...
by rinzwind
Fri Nov 25, 2016 2:30 pm
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Re: Compiler howto ;
SenseTalk has "object first syntax" in 2 variations... (never used it since its dedicated to software testing, but its manual looks very professional and promising). See
http://docs.testplant.com/?q=content/se ... -reference for an interesting read... And like I said, if one want to offe...
by rinzwind
Sun Nov 13, 2016 6:45 pm
Re: SenseTalk features to LiveCode?
It supports the DOT NOTATION which is clean and short
: put (firstName:"Joseph", age:50) into joe put property age of joe -- 50 put the age of joe -- 50 put joe's firstName -- Joseph put joe.firstName -- Joseph tellMeMore's elucidation "terse",5 utilities.insertCommas @myNumbe...
by rinzwind
Thu Sep 15, 2016 5:43 am
SenseTalk features to LiveCode?
I think its a good thing to research the few other xTalk alternatives looking for ideas to improve LiveCode. SenseTalk was the scripting environment of NeXTStep/OpenStep (you know, the one where mr Jobs was involved with) and now officially in use by TestPlant/eggPlant (automated testing platform). ...
by rinzwind
Wed Sep 14, 2016 6:20 am
Re: script local variable
Performance wise locals and globals are preferable to properties. Especially when one accesses or changes them many many times in loops etc. It would be nice if ther was something like a stack scope variable or card scope. But nope. Its all or nothing right now. Array handling trough properties espe...
by rinzwind
Fri Sep 02, 2016 9:03 am
Re: Unicode in Fields and SQLite
Would be welcome if the db library had a property that takes care of it for all text in the app. They have it for file handling... Like I said... even the buildin revDataFromQuery messes up and one cant fix that one with textdecode cause its already in ascii format.
by rinzwind
Thu Sep 01, 2016 5:50 pm
Re: Unicode in Fields and SQLite
Encoding should be a propery you set o a connection. revDataFromQuery outputs bad results too (and unfixable with textfecode) when there is non ascii text...