mergExt pricing changes and free externals

[Monte Goulding]

Hi Peter

I believe OS x toolbars are under development by Seao Sean at the moment. Ill try and make contact with him to see if he would like help taking his externals to market. 

I would think much of the address book access from ios would be the same on OS X so it may be possible to convince runrev to include it on desktop.

For SQLite I'm going to ask runrev to open source or at least provide access to source for all their externals. I believe this would be allow myself and others a chance to learn some tricks of the trade that runrev don't have time to document. It would also allow (depending on licensing) custom versions to be released.

The sandboxing stuff would appear to be an obvious one for the engine and given it would probably take someone like mark waddingham all of an hour to implement I would expect runrev to pick up on this. Have a few good rants about it on the dev list (usually works for me).

So... It sounds like I've talked myself out of everything you wanted but I need to consider these things as there just isn't room to compete in the livecode marketplace.

Cheers

--
Monte Goulding

On 15/07/2012, at 4:05 AM, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:

> Hi Monte,
> Here's some thoughts on what I would like to see.
> 
> As a generic category, anything that makes my Mac applications look like
> real Mac applications, i.e. access to the more recent native OS X controls.
> In particular, the ability to include icons/buttons/etc in a window title
> bar - I think it's referred to as a toolbar.  Another one would be direct
> access to the Mac Address Book.
> 
> I've seen the beginnings of both the above by others but they never seem to
> quite make it to market.
> 
> Another category would be access to some of the sqlite functions that
> RunRev do not expose to us and, in fact, the ability to access a more
> recent version of the sqlite library than is included in RunRev, which is
> woefully out of date.  But that's probably a bit too specialized for
> general use.
> 
> One other that comes to mind is tools to help with Apple's sandboxing
> rules. For example, apps that open files from a "Recently used" list
> violate the sandboxing rules unless it is done by establishing "bookmarks",
> wehich can't be done directly from Livecode.  I believe, but not 100% sure,
> that any attempt to use the shell command in Livecode would violate
> sandboxing rules.  Of course, that covers a huge amount of ground but
> perhaps a set of common os request that LC developers use could be a basis.
> 
> 
> Pete
> lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Monte Goulding <monte at sweattechnologies.com
>> wrote:
> 
>> What would be your number 1 desktop external Pete? A good candidate I
>> would think is bonjour.
>> 
>> --
>> Monte Goulding
>> 
>> On 14/07/2012, at 6:21 AM, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Glad to hear it Monte.  I'm ready to buy as soon as it includes some
>>> desktop externals.
>>> Pete
>>> lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 1:08 PM, Monte Goulding <
>> monte at sweattechnologies.com
>>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> It's in the grand plan for mergExt. All sales go into product
>> development.
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> Monte Goulding
>>>> 
>>>> On 14/07/2012, at 5:10 AM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Me too!
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com>
>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Monte,
>>>>>> I wish someone (or you yourself) would fill your externals role for us
>>>>>> lowly desktop folks!
>>>>>> Pete
>>>>>> lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
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