Infinite LiveCode, APIs and the Google Sheets API?

Mike Kerner MikeKerner at roadrunner.com
Thu May 19 14:37:35 EDT 2016


look at MergGoogle.  It's a widget that we paid Monte to write so we could
have all sorts of fun with Google Sheets, and might I say, we have all
sorts of fun with Google Sheets.

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 1:56 PM, JOHN PATTEN <johnpatten at me.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> So, I have never dived into any APIs, or LiveCode (Widget) Builder, but
> yesterday I read about the the release of the Google Sheets API (
> https://developers.google.com/sheets/ <
> https://developers.google.com/sheets/>). If you look at the Google Sheets
> documentation it lists some quick start strategies (
> https://developers.google.com/sheets/quickstart/dotnet <
> https://developers.google.com/sheets/quickstart/dotnet>) that require
> specific development languages. What!?? No LiveCode option?  :)
>
> Before I spend time trying to understand whether it would be possible to
> tie a LiveCode project to a Google Spreadsheet, …the thinking here is that
> it would be very useful to allow people/teachers/students to create
> LiveCode apps and store simple data into a Google Spreadsheets. This would
> be as opposed to storing them on an db. Google Sheets would give them the
> ability to generate reports from the data their LiveCode apps sent to the
> Google Sheet.
>
> Does Infinite LiveCode (Widgets) and the Google Sheets API a provide the
> potential to create a widget that would/could be used to say, define the
> Google Sheet, the columns in a Google Sheet, and then the ability to send
> data from LiveCode to the Google Spreadsheet? (Like maybe send an array of
> data to the spreadsheet) Or, am I totally off the tracks with this idea?
>
> I would not know where to start with something like this, but if folks
> think it is possible, I’m game to learn.
>
> Thanks for any feedback you may have!
>
> John Patten
> SUSD
>
>
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