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on mouseEnter
set the backgroundColor of me to "blue"
set the foregroundColor of me to "red"
set the textdirection of me to "ltr" -- the default
put random(2) into tChooser
if tChooser is 1 then
put "Hello World" into me
else
put "Goodbye Cruel World" into me
end if
end mouseEnter
Not even close I'm sure, trust me I don't have a clueNot an entirely fair assessment of flutter
Not entirely accurate though. When you create a new project there are a few different files that are generated. Any graphics and such would be additional files too. I did manage to get through the first intro app and will say the hot reload is pretty cool. I still think that our live environment is a bit easier though.
sure, but in the simple example above that's the entirety of what you produce - the rest is all produced automatically. No images included in the above app but would do in a normal app and you'd normally also produce multiple files (a file per widget/class) instead of bunching everything into one long script.
Absolutely - and not just a by a bit. LC has a much shallower learning curve; visual IDEs are more approachable (and i do wish a there was an official visual IDE for flutter), but more importantly LC provides many conveniences taken for granted. Try iterating a list of maps (an numerical array of associative arrays) and you'll appreciate the simplicity of livecode arrays and the each[] iterator
By complete application i mean from the creation point of view. Type that in, hit build and you're done. The full binary app is created. All graphical elements are created for you etc.Simon Knight wrote: ↑Thu Sep 23, 2021 8:58 pmI'm curious by what your mean by the code being a complete application: does it just take over the whole screen or flutter window? Also what triggers the code to run ?
This was because you were not a 'virgin'.took me a long time to actually 'get' LC
Erm... that was exactly my point. Thanks for confirmingrichmond62 wrote: ↑Fri Sep 24, 2021 8:29 amIn my Summer classes each year 'virgins' "get" LIveCode straight away and unquestioningly.
Indeed.The point i was trying to make is that the inverse is also true
No one 'trusts' google. But what's that got to do with this conversation?
(source: https://www.wired.com/2002/08/hypercard ... have-been/).if I had only realized the power of network-oriented stacks, instead of focusing on local stacks on a single machine, HyperCard could have become the first Web browser.
On the contrary, neither trust nor even blame are at all relevant to my relationships with vendors.