Map Widget - how does it actually work?

Mark Wieder ahsoftware at sonic.net
Mon May 25 21:39:04 EDT 2020


On 5/25/20 5:39 PM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode wrote:

>> The source code for all the widgets provided 'out of the box' is 
>> accessible so you can take those widgets as a base and improve and 
>> extended them as you need.
>>
> Unfortunately, there is a non-obvious meaning to "out of the box" - what 
> it means is "source code for all the widgets provided 'out of the box' 
> *in the community version* is accessible ..."
> 
> So, sadly, you can't just go look at the source code to find out what 
> you need.

The manifest xml file for the map widget lists its license as 
"community", which seems wrong. However, *every* extension has a license 
of "community", which seems wronger still. I don't see any way to set 
that, so it must be an extension builder "feature".

-- 
  Mark Wieder
  ahsoftware at gmail.com




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