LiveCode 1.6.1 docset now available

[James At The Hale]

Mike asked...
> James,
> Talk about why dash.

I mainly use my iPad to read my email. When reading LC stuff there have been times when I wanted to check the dictionary. Unfortunately for quite some time (almost as far back as the Kickstarter) to online API has not been friendly to a touch interface.

When the tiny dictionary was being discussed it occurred to me that it might be a good project to port over to iOS and give me back access to the API. Around the same time DASH, which had been removed from the app store for some reason was returned. Curious I looked into it and found that it offered access to a very wide range of documentation sets AND allowed you to write your own!
Furthermore, it had a MAC version but, more importantly, an iOS version.
As an added bonus the iOS version was free!

Having done some of the code for tiny dictionary I thought I would give writing a LC docset a go. Looking into the structure of a docset exposed another advantage. The docset could also include the “guides” that come with LC.

Thus the “make docset” stack was born.

Other bonuses were having other API’s close at hand (regex, css, html,markdown) for my occasional forays into their realm.

So I have Dash both on my Mac and my iPad. 

Dash also supplies a snippet manager on the Mac version which I have yet to explore.
It also has hooks which allow me to look up terms from other apps, e.g. writing a script in ATOM and I need to check the API, it is a right click away.

So, that’s why DASH for me.

Given there are readers of docsets for other platforms, I announce updates here in case others want to use it (or its siblings.)

James