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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?

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