Primary Student Livecode Interface (Simplified Developer Interface)

[Richmond]

Well: for starters you are going to have to trawl right through LiveCode 
and decide
which capabilities fall into which of the 5 levels . . .

Then decide who you are going to block, for instance, access to a button 
script at level 4;
or partial blocking as you are going to allow buttons to do some things.

I designed a HyperCard-like set of tools for LiveCode a few years ago 
because,
over on a Yahoo group, various people who haven't worked a few home 
truths out were
bemoaning having a sophisticated interface to LiveCode instead of a 
dumed-down version: mine
was so dumbed-down it was almost moronic. For "some odd reason"
there were no takers as far as I am aware.

I teach Primary kids LiveCode every summer and we do just fine with the 
standard set of tools:
the kids use exactly what they require and are generally self-limiting.

Richmond.

On 10.10.19 18:53, Devin Asay via use-livecode wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> This idea has been discussed over the years, but I don’t know of anyone who has implemented it.
>
> The userLevels were:
>
> 1 - Browsing - the ability to run and explore stacks, but no ability to make changes.
> 2 - Typing - added the ability to type and edit text in fields.
> 3 - Painting - added the ability to use the Paint tools to change the appears of cards and backgrounds.
> 4 - Authoring - added the ability to create buttons and fields and to link buttons to cards and stacks.
> 5 - Scripting - gave you full access to all developer components, including scripting.
>
> The “magic words” were ’set the userLevel to 5’.
>
> I found this information in my cobwebby brain, but was helped by the information on this page: http://folkstream.com/muse/teachhc/using/hcusing.html
>
> Best of luck. I think there are other people here who would be interested in this if you find or make something.
>
> Devin
>
>
> On Oct 10, 2019, at 9:41 AM, JOHN PATTEN via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com<mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>> wrote:
>
> Good Morning from SoCal,
>
> Quick question, anybody ever develop a simplified LiveCode “developer interface/tool“ project?
>
> If you’ve been around awhile, you might remember how HyperCard had multiple development modes. Level one allowed you to use drawing tools create buttons that would allow you to ”go to next card” etc. Pretty much no script access.
>
> Levels 2-3 gradually provided more capabilities.
>
> If you new the correct procedure, you could completely unlock Hypercard, with access to all developer components (Level 4?)
>
> Has anybody created a simplified Livecode developer interface for newbies?  Something that could be used to introduce, but not initially over whelm a new user?
>
> Just trying to not reinvent the wheel, if someone has already gone down this path and would be willing to share :)
>
> Thank you!
> John Patten
>
>
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
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