Ever heard of a thing called, "Multi-Finder?" Bob S
> On Feb 21, 2022, at 12:23 , Richard Gaskin via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Pi Digital wrote: > > > It’s so frustrating because I just spent the last week making my own > > widget to make bar and pi charts. LOL! Now it feels like a futile > > gesture with something far superior ‘just around the corner’. Your > > teams have done a really good job of making them. > > > > I’ll get back to making more futile tools that will likely get > > superseded by more of your work ;) > > This problem is as old as platforms themselves. Indeed much of Apple's early > dev-facing communications (circa Mac v1.0-4.0) centered around clarifying > their interests and their intentions for keeping the third-party opportunity > as wide open as practical. > > Later on a form of Konfabulator was included as Widgets, a form of Delicious > Library was included as iBooks, and the boundaries have been blurred forever > since. > > This is understandable, whether we're looking at a vendor whose platform is > an OS or a dev tool, as it's incumbent on them to provide a strong sense of > feature-completeness wherever practical. > > When evaluating third-party opportunities, consider not only the LC world but > also JavaScript. Integration between any GUI toolkit and web views is likely > only going to increase going forward. > > As LC Ltd notes in their blog post, the new charts widget wraps chart.js, an > open source package under MIT license. > > Many key ingredients in LC make use of open source code, and given the > vast-and-growing range of open source packages for JavaScript we can expect > more using that language over time. > > So next time you're thinking of an add-on for LC, also take a moment to see > if such a thing is already available in JavaScript. If it is you just saved > yourself the time otherwise needed to write it from scratch. > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Systems > Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web _______________________________________________ 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
