Achilles Heel of Livecode

[Tom Glod]

You are completely right.

I just quoted a job...and knowing that the customer is going to ask me
"where is the smooth scrolling?"..... i skipped over livecode entirely and
quoted it using flutter....knowing I have no explanation or chance to give
the customer the experience they expect.

Your point exactly.



On Mon, Dec 2, 2019 at 9:32 PM Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> @ richard
>
> I love LiveCode, use it every day, probably till the day I die, if I not
> meditating, singing or swinging kettle bells, and have invested in every
> offer presented by Kevin since you "turned me on Metacard" when I used
> Supercard and was looking for bigger solutions, and even bought into
> Revolution before it signed the agreement with Scott Raney -- I think that
> was circa 1990 when you sent that email.  And now I have business license
> "for life"  and I have a lot of respect for the team and what they try to
> do on some many platforms
>
> Having said that, I have been ranting on and off the past ten years, about
> the Achilles Heel which is the "busted ankle" in Livecode.  Simply this:
>
> Smooth Motion Graphics.
>
> "We shouldn't be scripting scrollers,"
>
>  is merely a "symptom" of a larger problem/gap/haitus in vision for the
> future.
>
> Now you and I and plenty of old timers know that, e.g. the "my app" could
> not be duplicated by some other language or "HTML5" without spending 10
> times the $ and time. I've been told that
>
>  "Oh sure we could do that on "React/Elm/[or any other language]"
> (SivaSiva app) but... uh, we could not make that Word Puzzle thing you did,
> and that Module (stack) you made would take five time the money and effort
> work. But, ours will look so professional!"
>
> So why will "The Other Thing" look "So Professional?"
>
>  Simple: scrolling, easing, bouncing, smooth scrolling, ken burns effects
> and cool transitions.
>
> I am not talking "animation" perse. Just the above. And scrolling is at
> ground zero of these "effects" .  It one thing to know, after 20 years of
> HTML, web work, PHP, Javascript, that Livecode "will be the best tool for
> this project in order to bring it to completion in 1/5 the time"
>
> It's totally another thing for LC to stand alongside other languages to be
> tested by newbies who are
>
> a) content producers want to develop apps - photoshop, illustration,
> Sketch expert...--  huge market there, but they have high production
> values, expectations on the "look/feel" of the first card they make. Much
> of which could be easily fix by tweaking the IDE.
> b) a complete newbie e.g 17-year old whose been using a phone for three
> years, and the app he sees "do cool stuff"  but he can't make his LC app
> "do cool stuff"
> c) old school programmer who is tired of the horrible world of JS, PHP,
> C++ and wants to have "fun" building solutions.
>
> All three markets have no idea what LC can do. They test drive it, and the
> Achilles Heel kicks in: nothing appears to "work smoothly" (we can't even
> run an animated GIF in LC while doing any else on the phone) and they are
> on to other languages.
>
> Kevin said in an interview in California, that he wanted LiveCode to be in
> the top ten languages... until we fix the Achilles Heel in the "look and
> feel of what you produce" in Livecode, it will never happen. For every 50
> who register for a trial, I really wonder how many actually "sign up",
> maybe 1-3? They are who see the potential for doing "in house tools/behind
> the scenes software"  that don't really care how it looks...
>
>  I hope I am wrong...or wish that in 2 years, I will be "wrong"
>
> BR
>
>
>
>
>
> We shouldn't be scripting scrollers.
>
> If the control we placed on the card scrolls, it should scroll.  Doesn't
> matter if it's Mac or Windows or Linux.  Shouldn't matter if it's iOS or
> Android.
>
> Manually typing an interaction overlay is bizarre savagery better left
> for those with a typing fetish than developers who want to be productive
> using visual development tools like LiveCode.
>
> That this has not been addressed in the product -- even as so many of us
> have scripted libraries to take care of this automatically in script --
> has always been concerning.
>
> And as we approach the 10th anniversary of iPhone, that this has never
> been taken care of, or even put on a road map, the concern has grown.
>
> Vision, anyone?
>
> #UserExperience
> #EmbraceVisualProgramming
> #xTalksRule
> #SomeoneHasToSayIt
> #WhyIsNoOneSayingIt
>
>
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