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Livecode Community on Apple Silicon

Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2026 2:21 am
by Emily-Elizabeth
For the last couple of days, I've been working on getting Livecode Community to run natively on Apple Silicon. There is still a lot of work to be done. Obviously I'll have to change the name, anyone have any ideas?
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Re: Livecode Community on Apple Silicon

Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2026 4:27 am
by FourthWorld
The IDE stacks are where branding is user-facing, and as you know are separate from the compiled engine.

Given how often the brand name shows up across the IDE, rebranding is a fair bit of work.

You might consider using the IDE stacks Paul worked on for OXT, and maybe coordinating your build as a fork.

Re: Livecode Community on Apple Silicon

Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2026 5:05 am
by Emily-Elizabeth
I did think about asking the OXT guys for the source code, but I figured doing it from the Livecode source would be a fun challenge 8)

Re: Livecode Community on Apple Silicon

Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2026 5:38 am
by FourthWorld
The heart wants what the heart wants, but given your talents if I had any say in it I'd rather see you work on that engine compile than a tedious rote task.

Re: Livecode Community on Apple Silicon

Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2026 5:48 am
by Emily-Elizabeth
FourthWorld wrote:
Tue Mar 17, 2026 5:38 am
The heart wants what the heart wants, but given your talents if I had any say in it I'd rather see you work on that engine compile than a tedious rote task.
Well, I have some issues with getting the IDE to be installed in the compiled application (I just copypasta'd the Toolset into the bundle). Next I have a few locking bugs to squish and then on to getting the stupid thing to compile applications. Fun fun fun :lol:

Re: Livecode Community on Apple Silicon

Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2026 1:45 pm
by richmond62
EEtalk . . . as in . . .

Re: Livecode Community on Apple Silicon

Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2026 3:34 pm
by Emily-Elizabeth
richmond62 wrote:
Tue Mar 17, 2026 1:45 pm
EEtalk . . . as in . . .
I was thinking ehXTalk (eh being my initials and also something we Canadians say a lot ;) )

Re: Livecode Community on Apple Silicon

Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2026 4:36 pm
by richmond62
Not necessarily a bad idea. 8)

Re: Livecode Community on Apple Silicon

Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2026 9:46 pm
by stam
Why not go flashy?

How about:
HyperX (kinda joining HyperCard and xTalk)

Re: Livecode Community on Apple Silicon

Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2026 9:48 pm
by Emily-Elizabeth
stam wrote:
Tue Mar 17, 2026 9:46 pm
HyperX (kinda joining HyperCard and xTalk)
That's a good name!

Re: Livecode Community on Apple Silicon

Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2026 6:37 pm
by Emily-Elizabeth
I went with HyperXTalk.

Re: Livecode Community on Apple Silicon

Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2026 7:45 pm
by richmond62
Aha: when will you release it into the wild?

Re: Livecode Community on Apple Silicon

Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2026 8:50 pm
by Emily-Elizabeth
Well right now I only have ARM "working" (I broke it the other day so it doesn't compile) but I put an installer on GitHub (you'll have to do the code signing on it as I need to figure out how to sign it when it's being built)

Re: Livecode Community on Apple Silicon

Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2026 4:41 pm
by Emily-Elizabeth
richmond62 wrote:
Thu Mar 19, 2026 7:45 pm
Aha: when will you release it into the wild?
https://github.com/emily-elizabeth/HyperXTalk
You can download and follow the build instructions, but this only makes a build for ARM Macs. It still has all the Livecode branding, so need to get working on that.

Anyone here good at graphic design and making logos and icons and such? It's an unpaid position ;-)

Re: Livecode Community on Apple Silicon

Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2026 11:12 am
by stam
Emily-Elizabeth wrote:
Sat Mar 21, 2026 4:41 pm
richmond62 wrote:
Thu Mar 19, 2026 7:45 pm
Aha: when will you release it into the wild?
https://github.com/emily-elizabeth/HyperXTalk
You can download and follow the build instructions, but this only makes a build for ARM Macs. It still has all the Livecode branding, so need to get working on that.

Anyone here good at graphic design and making logos and icons and such? It's an unpaid position ;-)
I can help, time permitting.
My actual (non-coding) work is absorbing all my time right now (at present I’m 7 days into 12 days continuous 34 hour on-call), so I can probably tackle smaller discrete tasks rather than open-ended ones. Let me know…