The marketing of these widgets and the other 3rd party extensions could use a 
little work. The descriptions for those that I clicked on where sparse and 
lacking screenshots. Licensing should be better addressed as well. Clicking on 
any of the widgets in the aforementioned pack makes it look like each widget is 
$49. But, if you continue a bit further, you can see that they lead back to the 
bunch being sold for $49. Confusing…yes.  
 
I found installing them to be painless because I was using LC 9 gm at the time. 
The installer should do a quick check on the LC version and provide helpful 
information. A sample stack containing all the widgets would have been a nice 
touch. LC requirements should be listed for all extensions in the store. 
Basically, the concerns listed by us all apply to every extension I reviewed. 
FWIW, lcTaskList does have a screenshot. Some of the extensions in the store 
come with readme files, instructions, and licensing details. Maybe some or all 
of these details need to be more public facing. Should improve sales for 
everyone involved.  

This is generally referred to as the productization of a tool. It is equally 
time consuming and sometimes more painful than the creation of the tool itself. 
Based on all the feedback so far, it is clear that it is important. I am sure 
there was excitement by both Digital Pomegranate and LiveCode to make these 
widgets available to us. 

Best regards,

Mark Talluto
livecloud.io <http://livecloud.io/>
nursenotes.net <http://nursenotes.net/>
canelasoftware.com <http://www.canelasoftware.com/>


> On Apr 11, 2018, at 4:56 PM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode 
> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> But then if I go to https://livecode.com/account/products/thirdparty 
> <https://livecode.com/account/products/thirdparty> I discover that I have 
> v1.0.0 available to download - or I can pay a further $58 to upgrade to 
> v0.5.0 !?
> 
> So I clicked on the download button, and got a zip/folder called 
> "WidgetPackBeta"
> Now I have a bunch of ".lce" files, one per widget, plus a 
> WidgetPackInstaller.livecode
> 
> Running that gives me a dialog asking "install all" - click that gives me an 
> error
> 
> stack "Widget Pack Installer": execution error at line 33 (Handler: can't 
> find handler) near "revIDEExtensionInstall", char 1
> 
> so I guess I need to go read about installing widget extensions ...


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