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katyperry wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 01, 2025 9:59 am

Hello everyone, I'm new to LiveCode and want to save data from a field to a text file. I'm not sure which command to use and how to reopen saved data. Can someone share a basic example for me to refer to?

Hi Katy Perry. I enjoy your music.

What are you building with LiveCode?

Hello everyone, I am making an app using LiveCode with quite a lot of controls (buttons, fields…). When the number of controls increases, the app shows signs of slowing down, especially when resizing the window. Does anyone have experience optimizing performance or best practices in this case that ...

This is discouraging. What happened to "Programming for the rest of us?" Decades of software. When HC was born in 1987, there were few apps, no browser, no Internet. Computing was a hobby for enthusiasts. Software was something you wrote. Faced with Pascal, C, or BASI5, HC was a godsend. Today, the...

Hi Amay. What are you building with LiveCode? Richard, I don't think you are going to get a reply. I suspect you're right, but before I ban a user and delete their content I usually offer the benefit of doubt. Once in a great while it's an actual earnest person who merely writes clumsily. o whats h...

It makes sense that Livecode Ltd. would focus on revenue—it’s similar to platforms like **MwinGame**, where long-term user engagement and trust are key to sustainability. Just like you're hoping for continued access beyond 2027, MwinGame users also rely on consistent support and fair access to the ...

I remember his presence on the mailing list, not sure if he also posted here.

Some of you may recall Ray Harder, who used to be quite active in our community. He used LiveCode to further his research in Sumerian and other ancient languages. I had the pleasure of meeting him at one of the LC conferences in Monterrey, and have been in touch off and on since. He hasn't been well...

Thanks, Bob. Same here.

And that's why I use regenerative software for personal entertainment only.

https://youtu.be/1A6uPztchXk

It's a fun thread tho, about as reliably useful as GPTs get. Do we delete, or enjoy it as a writing prompt?

Also, it's probably nitpicking to say that LC does not compile apps ;) In a world where "literally" literally means figuratively, the definition of "compile" has so expanded in our 21st century scripting-dominated world as to have nearly no discernible meaning. Just yesterday I was reading up on a ...

Unfortunate that it required an LLM burning thru half a gallon of water to find the answer, but the detail on the SSLversion is very useful. Thank you.

How can I determine which TLS version is used in a given LiveCode build?

For the moment it would be enough to know which TLS version is used in the most recent Stable build.

And, in a global world better tools are needed... There must be something in those images I'm not noticing. xTalks use a default date format internally for computational consistency, and through useSystemDate LC accesses the user's preference expressed in OS settings for display. Under what circums...

Does anyone have an example of what some other program does much better than LC? There are SOOOO many languages and toolkits, each with their own trade-offs, each invented to do something better than the others. Too many to list. Visit the Wikipedia page for just about any language to learn why a l...

CAsba wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 13, 2025 9:53 am

Hmmm, belittlement, dimunutive, confusion. By comparison, coding is quite straightforward !

Code can acquire and manage properties, become drivers, and handle resource balancing, but these are relatively recent feature-parity upgrades for women, and not all systems have been updated.