Thanks for the links and info Trevor. Everything you said sounds really good. Cocoa will open the door for Objective-C and Swift.
John Balgenorth On Sep 19, 2014, at 4:35 AM, Trevor DeVore <li...@mangomultimedia.com> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 12:45 AM, JB <sund...@pacifier.com> wrote: > >> >> A better thing to discuss is when will LiveCode be >> releasing the version that Kevin recently posted a >> video where he talked about extensions and Swift. >> He mentioned they will be able to program LiveCode >> with LIveCode. This sounds really interesting to me. >> If you have not watched the video Richard Gaskin >> posted a link to it and it is very interesting. >> > > This is very interesting technology and will fundamentally change LiveCode > as a development environment. I don't know what the release schedule is, > and releases schedules always change, but you can watch development of it > on github. There is a widgets branch on the Runrev/LiveCode github > repository that Mark Waddingham has committed some code to. Previously he > was doing some work on it under a "feature-widget" branch on his own github > account. Here is the link to the widget branch: > > https://github.com/runrev/livecode/commits/widgets > > You can check in periodically and see how it progresses. > > If you want to monitor all of the progress on the engine then you can > follow these instructions for installing SourceTree and setting it up with > the livecode github repository. > > http://www.bluemangolearning.com/livecode/2014/07/using-sourcetree-to-monitor-progress-on-livecode/ > > The engineers at RunRev are doing a lot of fine work, as you will see by > watching the repository. Some of it has led to things like Cocoa, improved > Linux support, improved proxy support, the new browser, the QuickTime > replacement on OS X, hi-dpi support, etc. A lot of their work has been less > visible but has provided a foundation for some awesome technology we will > be seeing in the not-to-distant future. > > -- > Trevor DeVore > ScreenSteps > www.screensteps.com - www.clarify-it.com > _______________________________________________ > 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