[ANN] Release 10.0.0 DP-2

[Bob Sneidar]

Ever heard of a thing called, "Multi-Finder?" 

Bob S


> On Feb 21, 2022, at 12:23 , Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Pi Digital wrote:
> 
> > It’s so frustrating because I just spent the last week making my own
> > widget to make bar and pi charts. LOL! Now it feels like a futile
> > gesture with something far superior ‘just around the corner’. Your
> > teams have done a really good job of making them.
> >
> > I’ll get back to making more futile tools that will likely get
> > superseded by more of your work ;)
> 
> This problem is as old as platforms themselves. Indeed much of Apple's early dev-facing communications (circa Mac v1.0-4.0) centered around clarifying their interests and their intentions for keeping the third-party opportunity as wide open as practical.
> 
> Later on a form of Konfabulator was included as Widgets, a form of Delicious Library was included as iBooks, and the boundaries have been blurred forever since.
> 
> This is understandable, whether we're looking at a vendor whose platform is an OS or a dev tool, as it's incumbent on them to provide a strong sense of feature-completeness wherever practical.
> 
> When evaluating third-party opportunities, consider not only the LC world but also JavaScript.  Integration between any GUI toolkit and web views is likely only going to increase going forward.
> 
> As LC Ltd notes in their blog post, the new charts widget wraps chart.js, an open source package under MIT license.
> 
> Many key ingredients in LC make use of open source code, and given the vast-and-growing range of open source packages for JavaScript we can expect more using that language over time.
> 
> So next time you're thinking of an add-on for LC, also take a moment to see if such a thing is already available in JavaScript. If it is you just saved yourself the time otherwise needed to write it from scratch.
> 
> -- 
> Richard Gaskin
> Fourth World Systems
> Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web