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Hi, what options do I have as a complete beginner apart from the 10-day trial? I see a personal license mentioned on the forum, but it's not on the site anymore.

OK, to answer my own question: LiveCode Community edition

Dead in the water!

richmond62 wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 29, 2025 10:07 am

Dead in the water!

Yes, but as a complete beginner it helps a lot. I'm not paying $440 a year just to try to learn something

Quite right too.

CFCFCF wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 29, 2025 10:24 am

Yes, but as a complete beginner it helps a lot. I'm not paying $440 a year just to try to learn something

You have sympathy and agreement from all here. The pricing structure is not where users here wanted it to be.

It does take a little while to get into the mindset of LiveCode script to make the most of it, especially if coming from other languages. But well worth it.

There is also an opensource version of community being maintained independently, that might be better to use than the dated community version.

For a low cost, you can also find a course on Udemy.com, which would speed up your familiarity with the platform. It’s a bit dated now but remains entirely accurate and useful for those new to the platform.

Thank you both for your replies and thank you to the kind persons who PM'd me, apologies for not answering, I'm technically prohibited from sending or replying to PMs as I'm too new to the forum.

Hi.

Whether you dig up the still extant community version or get the least expensive latest one, you are best served by actually working and playing (the two go hand-in-hand) current version. You can only learn by doing, and this forum will provide endless support.

Try it, you will like it.

Craig

Thank you so! That's what I intend to do (I'm trying to recreate a boardgame scoring app which I made with one of those Android code blocks apps), I'll report back.

If you could let us know the name of the app and post a few screenshots to illustrate its functionality that would be great fun.

richmond62 wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 02, 2025 1:55 pm

If you could let us know the name of the app and post a few screenshots to illustrate its functionality that would be great fun.

Oh, I haven't published it anywhere, I would've done so (as a free app), but the licence prohibited me from doing so, it's just for my own use for now. It's kinda difficult to explain what it does for someone unfamiliar with the board game (Ottoman Sunset, a solo game), but I can do so

… Hmm, how do I attach an image? I'm not able to post external links. Does it also have to do with me being new here?

p.s. Given your background, if you come across the first edition of the game, it's definitely gonna rub you the wrong way because it uses a faux sanskrit font for Ottoman flavour )

Ok, I figured it out. Here it is, it's three screens long

Ha, ha, ha: a faux Sanskrit font for Ottoman flavour: it would probably rub a lot of Turks up the wrong way: imagine using an Indiany sort of font when Turkish under the Ottomans used a modified Arabic script.

Personally if the game turned out to be fun that squiggly writing would not fuss me at all.

richmond62 wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 02, 2025 4:13 pm

Ha, ha, ha: a faux Sanskrit font for Ottoman flavour: it would probably rub a lot of Turks up the wrong way: imagine using an Indiany sort of font when Turkish under the Ottomans used a modified Arabic script.

Personally if the game turned out to be fun that squiggly writing would not fuss me at all.

It's very difficult for me not to read this as Ottoman Shunshet (in my native language Ș is sh)