Preference for Keeping Saved Empty Button Scripts Empty

[Richard Gaskin]

Making scripted elements is a great thing for scripters to do.  And the 
one thing we all have in common here is that we're all scripters.

There should be no need to make LC Ltd's C++ experts set aside work on 
the engine to build these instead.

What prevents any of us from delivering those?

-- 
  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Systems


Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote:

> Kevin, 
> 
> Thanks for jumping in, very inspiring work you have all been doing recently. One has to wonder if anyone sleeps in Edinborough!
> 
> I've been having a running conversation with Richard on how to make small solutions available to the whole community, in the spirit of "this would make adoption of LC as a platform more tenable."  I had ideas about how to turn that into revenue  for LC company also, But Richard pointed out the I was a bit naïve on ROI (which I was/am)  but that is a different discussion.
> 
> Simply put: one can enter google "SQL Query Descending Order" and get 100's of hits with examples.
> OR (different context entirely but…_)
> Go to the Unity plug in store and find 1000+ plugins (open source) free or from 2.99 to 99.99. 
> 
> Newbies and even us "old timers" need a leg up on "how to" with 
> 
> a) examples scripts
> b) actual LC native binary stacks as demos.
> c) script only behaviors attached to custom controls
>      (I'm only getting into this now… awesome potential for "plug-ins)
> c) central respository/index of some kind
> d) ways we all can contribute.
> 
> presently key info is fragmented across.
> 
> 1) dictionary (no or very few robust examples)
> 2) API tab 
> 3) on line lessons (many of which are obsolete)
> 4) answers in the email list
> 5) forum treads
> 6) blogs
> 7) Course (different from on line lessons?)
> 8) various develop web site where they off there "stuff" for free
> 9) Rev-online
> 9) behind paywalls like Global Connect
> 
> So, fantastic work you are doing! Indeed, but please consider the "high level" documentation/indexing/global LC knowledge base as important a key feature to develop for the platform as new "deep tech" features.
> 
> Brahmanathaswami
> 
> 
> On 6/20/17, 8:06 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of Kevin Miller via use-livecode" <use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com on behalf of use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
>     Sooner would have been better. However just in case you missed it, the
>     architecture has been available to play with for many months and a native
>     field for Android is doable in 9-dp-7 posted last week. You have to change
>     a few words in Ali¹s native button LCB file - he explained which ones in
>     his talk. We¹ll follow with a blog post on that too shortly. There is a
>     widget course available https://livecode.com/topic/introduction-2/ now
>     which covers getting started with widgets. We will add in the info about
>     the FFI layer to that course shortly. We will also modify the object Ali
>     supplied to cover a whole variety of other native controls from the tools
>     palette given each is just a tweak to that LCB. Its all in there and open
>     source right now. Objective-C (and thus iOS) will be in DP 8.
>     
>     Kind regards,
>     
>     Kevin