[ANN] Release 10.0.0 DP-2

[Martin Koob]

The term “Multi-finder” rung a bell but not very loudly.  I knew it was a Mac thing but I wasn’t quite sure what anymore. I realized my loss of memory around this is probably an age thing when I looked it up and found the date that it debuted...  way back in 1987.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MultiFinder.  That was before the Berlin wall fell, remember that?

Martin Koob


> On Feb 22, 2022, at 4:52 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> 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 superseded by more of your work ;)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
> 
> _______________________________________________
> use-livecode mailing list
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com
> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:
> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode