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Hey Friends,

I found myself in need of building a git plugin for LiveCode today. Instead of building it on my own, I decided to livestream the whole process. To watch it, jump in to:

https://youtu.be/cOr87w7GyGs

I'm live right now and I have no clue how long this will take and if I will actually succeed in building the plugin I want. This is a good opportunity to interact with another developers (there is a chat) and watch how I work. You'll see my mistakes, debugging skills, and maybe even learn something.

see ya
Andre

I think I came back too late, but after 3 hours and a half, I don't blame you for calling it quits

Sorry for calling it quits. I need to work on some other things. Next time I'll announce it way earlier so that people can prepare in advance to watch it. Anyway, YT keeps a recording so you can always go back and watch from the start. It takes me a long time to start because I hit the "on air" button to pick the URL and then proceed to write and send the messages to this forum and the dev list.

Your sorry for quitting after 3 hours? Please don't be hahahaha, I wouldn't have been able to stay that long anyway

I rarely sign into Google anything, so it isn't like I would have been chatting at you anyways but I did find viewing it interesting, so for sure thank you for posting it!

I can't remember the last time I signed into youtube for anything, and this is the first time I was motivated to add to a yt chat.
And along the way I learned what an "MM" git status is. Time well spent.

Andre- your profile info here still shows you as being in Niteroi.

I saw your name up near the top of the list heh.

I wish Andre had moved the 'chat' part up a bit higher, or moved his camera so we could see things as they came up, but those were the only things I saw that wasn't interesting (so far).

I just popped the yt chat box out, stuck it in a different monitor, and made the video part full screen.

Yes, but not possible when your coming in 'after the fact' as it were

That's bizarre. Why would the option be available when the stream is live but not afterwords?

I like the idea of liveStreaming a livecode-ing session, maybe I'll try doing that next time I start to write another API wrapper with LiveCode Builder and document the process.
I don't see a need for a GitPlugin IDE though, unless it does stuff like convert your stacks into a text only (plus any resource files) format(s).
I just use GitDektop for both LCB code / LCS script-only, and binary stack files.

Paul- Brian Milby's scriptTracker plugin stack does just that and keeps me more or less sane. YMMV.

mwieder wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 12, 2021 12:47 am

Paul- Brian Milby's scriptTracker plugin stack does just that and keeps me more or less sane. YMMV.

Yes, Brian's made several very useful tools/resources. And I think someone in the chat mentioned Monte's VCS plug-in too (not sure if he's still developing that). Of course if you make behaviors scripts for controls and otherwise keep everything script-only and only use the binary stack format for GUI things, or if you're doing LCB stuff, then Git can stack your changes fine.

Maybe I'll do a livestream of making an LCB Wrapper for wimlib since it doesn't have that much to wrap and I've had a need for it a few times recently (making USB install media for Windows 10, but from macOS with FA32 format flash). I hate typing at the command line (vs. drag/drop applet way of doing things) and there's no a GUI tool for dealing with this Windows Disk-Image format on macOS (AFAIK).

mwieder wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 11, 2021 9:27 pm

I can't remember the last time I signed into youtube for anything, and this is the first time I was motivated to add to a yt chat.
And along the way I learned what an "MM" git status is. Time well spent.

Andre- your profile info here still shows you as being in Niteroi.

So many statuses, right? I want to reduce them to something like "stages/unstaged" because that is kinda all we usually care. As for the profile editing, I've tried editing it before but when I submit the form, it goes to an error page as if the form action is pointing at the wrong location...

PaulDaMacMan wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 12, 2021 1:37 am

Maybe I'll do a livestream of making an LCB Wrapper for wimlib since it doesn't have that much to wrap and I've had a need for it a few times recently (making USB install media for Windows 10, but from macOS with FA32 format flash). I hate typing at the command line (vs. drag/drop applet way of doing things) and there's no a GUI tool for dealing with this Windows Disk-Image format on macOS (AFAIK).

That would be great, Paul. I know very little about LCB and wrapping native libraries, I'd probably watch that multiple times.