I’m curious how do the likes of Swift, C# store details of their GUI ? As to display of PDF what is it you want to do that can’t be achieved using the browser ?
best wishes Simon Simon Knight s...@anvic.net Telephone : 01427 325911 Mobile : 07963 077071 Skype : jtidsskids > On 26 Feb 2017, at 21:06, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Dr. Hawkins wrote: > > > More commonly, until and unless livecode can save such that such > > standard tools or comparable can be applied, multi-person development > > will remain a fantasy and/or novelty. > > And yet here we are, using an IDE written in LiveCode by a team comprised of > dozens of company and community developers working together on a single code > base. > > > > I've come to accept that the next major rewrite of my software is > > going to have to be in something else (Swift?) so that I can add > > developers, as well as the inability to actually put a pdf or eps > > on a card (just a bitmap of it won't do); livecode just doesn't > > seem to me doing towards such a direction. > > The Business Edition has already gone that direction: > https://livecode.com/products/livecode-platform/pdf-viewer/ > > Probably at least an order of magnitude cheaper to upgrade to Business than > to rewrite the whole thing in Swift from scratch. And with LC you get a > cross-platform solution, while even if you did find a GUI framework for Swift > for Windows you'd likely be writing a lot of forked code for each platform. > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Systems > Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web > ____________________________________________________________________ > ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.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
