Livecode Standard Plan

Anything beyond the basics in using the LiveCode language. Share your handlers, functions and magic here.

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Re: Livecode Standard Plan

Post by FourthWorld » Mon Mar 30, 2026 10:00 pm

The scripting language is there, the Classic IDE is needed to build Create, many of the bug reports make reference to using Classic.

At the end of the day, you can build the Create IDE in Classic (indeed, that's what they're doing), but not the other way around.

I see Classic as a less attractive power user option for their new market target. But for legacy customers it's the way the workflow has evolved, so as long as it's there it would seem counterproductive to take the additional steps to remove it.

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Re: Livecode Standard Plan

Post by jacque » Mon Mar 30, 2026 11:05 pm

I know you can edit scripts, so presumably you can write your own. If there was documentation I'd like to try it, but going in cold has put me off so far.
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Re: Livecode Standard Plan

Post by dunbarx » Tue Mar 31, 2026 3:41 am

Jacque.
I know you can edit scripts, so presumably you can write your own.
OK, so Create does all the control dragging and laying out, and then we can tweak that.

Then it writes a lot of code based on some description of functionality we feed it. And then we can edit that code. OK, that seems in principal like a good deal, assuming that one does not have to spend a lot of time undoing what the very helpful Create assumed was intended.

I guess I will have to reserve judgement until I see a full demo of some sort of project. I saw such a thing a year or two ago. I wonder how it has evolved...

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