Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

[Trevor DeVore]

On Sunday, May 10, 2015, Bjoernke von Gierke <bvg at mac.com
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','bvg at mac.com');>> wrote:

> There is no communication about any aspect other then widgets, which
> frankly, still look like an easier way to make externals to me, nothing
> more.


Hi Bjoernke,

I would suggest taking another look as their seems to be some
misunderstanding. Widgets are for making custom controls.

I have 20 or so widgets that I've written for a project I'm working on
which add UI controls to the project. None of these make any calls to OS
APIs. They just use the LiveCode Builder language to draw shapes,
render SVG path data, and respond to events. I'm very excited about the
results. What used to be multiple controls grouped together to create a
custom control is now a single widget with property names that I define.
Much cleaner and I can draw more complex controls then I could before.

In the hopes that it would be helpful to others looking to play around with
widgets I wrote a little about my experience in my blog. There are 3 posts
about Widgets right now. Perhaps they will be of interest to you.

http://www.bluemangolearning.com/livecode/

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Trevor DeVore