Capture Those Precious Memories

Alan Stenhouse used LiveCode to quickly build an app that allowed him to capture some precious memories with his father. I'll let Alan tell the story.

"One day when I was going through some old photos with my father, I was getting him to tell me something about them - who was there, where it was, when etc. I realised that I needed to record this easily and store it with the photo. Initially I just thought I wanted to take notes about each photo, but realised it would be great to record his voice recollections as well. Anyway, that afternoon + evening I made the first cut of an app which worked out quite well and I used it the next day successfully with my Dad."

In the screenshot you can see the the main palette window showing the image list with various controls at the top and a text area for taking notes at the bottom. Beside it is the image viewing window. 

The app also allows you to play back the images in a slideshow, automatically playing the spoken memories and displaying any written notes. 

Alan has created an iPad version of the app. He's called it Re-Collections. 

Make an art app for kids

When John Lally, a professional 3D animator, wanted to try his hand at app development, he found himself searching for a development environment that would be simultaneously intuitive, flexible, and robust. Although he had some scripting experience from building animation rigs, he did not have experience with Apple's Xcode. He found LiveCode to be the perfect blend of easy to use drag-and-drop UI elements and expansive scripting environment that could accommodate the complex hybrid solutions that his app required. The result was "Macaroni Art", recently released on Amazon for the Kindle Tablet Series, and on iTunes as a Universal iOS app.

You can get it from the AppStore and Amazon.

Create icons

Jan Schenkel developed IconBadger using LiveCode is an in-house utility for his colleague user experience designers. The company had purchased a large set of icons, but they were still missing some for their flagship application. Thanks to Jan's tool, they can now quickly create additional icons by combining database 'table' icons and function 'badge' symbols.

Create QR Codes

John Craig uses LiveCode to directly generate QR codes.

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Manage a database of images

Roger Eller used LiveCode to develop this app which to manage images via an SQL database for a large print company.

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Build a full blown graphic quality control tool

Roger Eller built this fully blown Graphics QC tool in LiveCode. It is used for checking computer prepared artwork prior to large-scale print runs.

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Create tools to improve department efficiency

Roger Eller created a toolbar simply named "Toolz". He loaded it up with various LiveCode apps which he built to help his colleagues automate tasks which could result in typos, like renaming files.  One of his Toolz allowed them to overlay a transparent protractor on top of artwork to verify printing angle specifications. Using LiveCode, he was able to make Toolz that really helped his department get stuff done, both correctly and with increased efficiency.

Bring your user interfaces to life

A few years ago Scott Rossi created an impressive video of his work. Scott creates images with graphic design apps and then brings them to life with LiveCode. So when you see one of Scott's UIs working in the video it is all down to LiveCode.

The credits mention Runtime Revolution, it is the former name of LiveCode.

Map Peptides

Professor Rob Beynon, a Royal Society Industrial Fellow, who works at the Institute of Integrative Biology at the University of Liverpool regularly turns to LiveCode. He mostly uses it to hack small, local solutions to process large datasets. He also write useful tools for his research group including the very simple*, yet useful, Peptide Mapper in LiveCode. It uses some biological data to create an SVG visualisation. 

Learn more.

* Very simple in his terms, nowhere near simple to me.

Build self-contained music samplers

Scott Rossi used LiveCode to build this stand alone music player with integrated slideshow and browser-launching controls.

And this one as well.

Create an interactive puzzle

Scott Rossi created a series of interactive puzzles for use in alternate reality games in LiveCode. Here is a screenshot of one of them.

Take and edit screenshots

Paul Hibbert launched a commercial app he developed with LiveCode last year called Little Red Snapper. It was designed to help mobile phone web programmers work with screenshots. The app is available for Windows and Mac and has sold more than 1500 copies.

The main purpose of the app is to allow the user to take snapshots, edit and merge them together, all in a simple interface, but with some powerful commands, so avoiding the need for heavyweight image editing apps like Photoshop.

I'll let Paul add a bit of background. "I should also tell you that I am not a professional programmer, this is the first commercial app I've ever made, so I was amazed at it's success. My previous programming experience came from using Filemaker, HTML and playing around with Basic many years ago on a Spectrum."

Read more about the app.

Build experimental music players

Scott Rossi used LiveCode to build this experimental music player designed to simulate cinematic motion graphics interface.

Haunt your house

Scott Rossi built this digital ouija board in LiveCode. It generated random phrases for a haunted house event.

Add Post Production Effects and Edges to Images

Obleo Beck used LiveCode to develop Image Blender, a digital imaging tool for adding imaging frames, edges, image effects and more. It lets you add the finishing touch to make your images really snap with professional quality.

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Build a battleship game

Scott Rossi produced this prototype battleship game with LiveCode.

Simplify geographical mapping

Map Grabber was written in LiveCode by Graham Samuel as an add-on to an existing simplified Geographical Information System (GIS) which runs on PCs and is designed to introduce school children to geographical mapping. Map Grabber allows the user (a pupil or a teacher) to download a very large map from a public database, and to select a smaller 'tile' of the map interactively. The tile is selected from a miniaturised version of the original large map, and then passed in its original resolution to the GIS program. Map Grabber is deliberately designed to be easy to use.

Prepare photo galleries for publication

Himalayan Academy Publications keeps a central folder on its Local Area Network server where content contributors can drop photo sets. They have a LiveCode app called Caption Writer which their editors can use to access these folders. The interface allows for the editor to write captions for each photo, a story for the gallery and then with the click of a button generate all the HTML and JavaScript needed for a Galleria slideshow post. The app automatically opens WordPress on the server with the post sitting on the clipboard ready to go. 

 

Build interactive pocket floral guides

Ludovic Thébault has developed a beautiful iPhone floral guide to Alpes-Maritimes, the department of France which includes the Riviera.

Simulate landscape lighting effects

Scott Rossi developed this extremely realistic lighting simulator in LiveCode.