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On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Andre Garzia <an...@andregarzia.com> wrote: > Folks, > > This is just a little email to show some appreciation for Ken Ray, Richard > Gaskin, Chipp Walters, Mark Wieder and Jerry Daniels. > > Kens XML Lib saved my life many times but what I want to talk right now is > about DropTools. Since I installed it, I became much happier and I am > already thinking about building and sharing new controls. The architecture > is easy and simple just the way it should be. Ken, Drop Tools Rock! (I wish > I could replace LiveCode toolbar with DropTools toolbar and > have a single place to drag controls from) > > Yesterday, I dusted up my old G4 and went for source code hunting. I lost a > lot of data some years ago when both my intel machines fried up at the same > time (the main development machine and the main backup clone, two identical > macbooks, both fried). So while I was recovering from my bad Lion > installation, I decided to go back to the G4 to fish for some tools I > liked. > The G4 booted fine and Revolution 2.7 launched with GLX2 (I also > found constellation there) man that editor is GREAT, Jerry should really be > proud and Mark too. I've installed the newly patched GLX2 on my Mac and it > is great. Talking about Jerry, there is a little tool that he made that I > think is really great, it is a simple thing but it is really useful and it > is Time Gadget. Time Gadget is a time tracking tool that is compatible with > altToolbar. I used that all the time and will keep using it indefinitely > probably. I think it is a great example of building really useful tools, > Jerry makes products with great usability, I wish he would still maintain > TimeGadget or consider giving it to some developer to maintain, it is a > great tool. > > Marks recent work with GLX2 and PowerDebug adds a lot of power to our > development cycle. How many times I wished for some feature to be present > in > LiveCode built in debugger... now, most of them are in PowerDebug :-) > Yay!!!!! > > I've already talked about altToolbar many times but I think many in the > LiveCode community are not aware of it. Chipps altToolbar is to plugins > what > DropTools is to controls. Man, so many great plugins. I still use magic > carpet, interface designer and time gadget. I have my own silly plugins as > well thanks to Chipps insight in creating an extensible architecture for > altToolbar. > > Well, I got my first contract thanks to Richards beyond the browser article > but that is another tale, right now I am thinking about Devolution toolkit. > It is a simple extensible toolset, not unlike altToolbar with some great > stuff inside. I know Richard still works in it and may release an update > someday but the current Devolution incarnation is very good. The only thing > I miss is an updated form maker... I loose a lot of time building forms in > LiveCode... > > During the recent years we had an influx of many new users who never used > these tools, many who are not aware that these tools exist. My advise to > the > new guys and gals here is: Grab them, use them! > > and to all the authors, you guys rock!!!! > > Cheers > andre > > > -- > http://www.andregarzia.com All We Do Is Code. > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode