Learn Japanese verbs

A while ago, Alan Stenhouse made a series of apps for learning the many forms of Japanese verbs in LiveCode*. They followed a new learning method created by Paul Knight, a professor of Japanese in New Zealand. The apps provide a number of exercises which can be followed, including audio playback, saving for revision and random ordering, as well as a dictionary and articles illustrating some interesting aspect of Japanese life and culture.

* Alan originally developed the Apps with Hypercard and found it very easy to keep them alive by moving them to LiveCode.

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.

Manage and invoice customers

Josep M Yepes used LiveCode to create an app which allows you complete control over customer relationship management and invoicing.

Here's a video showing all the features.

Teach maths to young kids

Scott Rossi used LiveCode to build the interface and tools for Math Gadget. It teaches maths concepts to elementary (primary) school kids.

Make a multilingual talking metronome

Alan Stenhouse of Scruff Monkey Software used LiveCode to create BeatSpeak, a multilingual talking metronome for iPhones and iPads.

A simple and elegant digital metronome. It lets you choose the number of beats per bar, adjust the tempo slider or tap along with your favorite song, then hit the big beat number to start or stop.

You can change the language (currently either English or Japanese) as well as the gender of the spoken voice.

It's in the App Store.

Learn by organising your browsing

A student of Cyril Prusko at Eleanor Roosevelt High School wanted to easily access his favourite websites. He built this little app in LiveCode so that with a single click the website would be automatically opened in his browser.

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.

Find where to recharge your electric vehicle

Alan Stenhouse of Scruff Monkey Software built EV-Point, an electric vehicle recharge station finder, for iPads and iPhones with LiveCode.

EV-Point lets you find a place to recharge your electric vehicle. Your location will be indicated, simply select a target recharge station near you and get directions to it, both on the map and as text. You can also email the directions to someone else if required. Directions are automatically localised to your current phone language. Charging stations for Europe, the USA, Australia, Japan and other countries are available.

It's in the App Store.

Create a music mixer for kids

A musical toy for mixing playback of two music sources by Scott Rossi in LiveCode.

Develop the World's largest signing dictionary ... a video dictionary at that!

Tiemo Hollmann from Verlag Karin Kestner OHG developed the World's largest sign language dictionary.  It includes a massive 18,000 German words and 18,000 German sign language videos. Easy to access, fast to find, sophisticated to play in slow motion, and handy to print a sign picture.

German speakers can learn more.

Learn by programming games

Save the bird was written by a 13 year old girl student of Cyril Prusko at Eleanor Roosevelt High School in LiveCode.  It's a cute 3 level game to fly a bird to the finish, collecting cherries for points. You never die, you just get sent back to the start. It took her about 4 weeks. During that period, she also wrote a maze game, an educational game and a few other programs.

Another of Cyril's girl students wrote a spacecraft game. The objective of the game is to collect stars whilst avoiding moving objects. Her original game was a Dr Who game where you flew the Tardis through space. She changed it to a rocket.

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 a correlation coefficient tutorial

Ronald Zeller built this interactive app in LiveCode so that his students could explore correlation coefficients. It illustrates sample positive, negative and neutral correlations.  When the students select various functions it displays the statistics contributing to the correlation values and a plot of the various data sets with a best-fit line.   Students can drag data points to new locations on the chart and then recalculate the values to observe the effect.  They can also create a new data set of their own and then calculate and plot that data to further explore the principles.  When they are ready they can take an exit quiz which submits performance data via a server-based SQL database. 

Note: The plot points appear larger than normal to allow selecting and dragging on an iPad.

Help a disabled person study Latin

Mac Bennett used LiveCode to write "Latin Scansion Tools" for a disabled Latin student who has difficulty using a pen or pencil. It allows the user to place scansion symbols anywhere on the page, and outputs a pdf file to print or give to the teacher.  

The poems can be easily imported into the app by simply pasting text or an image (jpg  file).

Build experimental music players

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

Create an interactive mobile product catalogue

Mathhias Rebbe developed a mobile product catalogue iOS app in LiveCode. It is gives the user access to product prices, features and availability. The information can also be sent by email directly from the app.  To make it easy for users, they can simply scan International Article Number(EAN) barcodes with their phone to search for that product in the catalogue.

The user can also establish a phonecall or create an email from within the app to get in contact with sales, financial or technical staff. 

Manage archaeological digs

Malte Brill's company has developed a rather sophisticated app in LiveCode for archaeologists called archaeoDox. It is the standard excavation software used in the German states of Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg.

Find out more.

Haunt your house

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

Add version control to desktop publishing apps

As many as ten different editors at Himalayan Academy Publications may need to read and write files of each of their books and international magazine. They  use Adobe's Indesign for their graphical publications. They used to use Adobe's Version Cue but vendor support was going to cease. Soon they would be left with no version control system. I'll let Brahmanathaswami continue the story.

"I wanted to create a fool proof app that anyone with no training could use, which required virtually no maintenance, and which did not have all the unnecessary bells and whistles that our editors complained they never used and only made life complicated. Using LiveCode's ability to leverage the shell and its fabulous file management tools I created a lean revision control system that simply copies and renames files from the main server on our network to the local version control folders. In two years since we set this up we have never had a single file corruption or loss of data and the overhead in management is virtually zero. Livecode makes this possible."

Simulate a lift (elevator)

Graham Samuel used LiveCode to write a simple simulator of a lift (elevator) in a department store as part of project for showing UK school children how simple computing devices are used for sequencing and interaction. The user (a pupil) can 'program' the lift to stop at particular floors, make announcements etc. The program provides 'passengers' with randomised intentions for getting in and out of the lift. If the sequencing is wrong, passengers can be left behind or trapped in the lift - they even make grumbling noises when things go wrong!

Add intelligence to your ERP system

The French inks manufacturer, Encre Dubuit, used LiveCode to develop an intelligent front-end to its ERP system for sales administration. It allows staff to easily enter customer orders and is linked in real time to the ERP. So for example, new orders are immediately reflected in the ERP system. The stock levels held in the ERP system are continuously available in the sales administration system.

Make news aggregation easy

Hindu Press International is a popular blog which aggregates key news items. The editors have been provided with a very lean, simple desk top app written in LiveCode.  It helps them get their job done without having to know anything about HTML, FTP or other web technologies. They simply enter stories into a single field and the application parses the stories, generates the blog post, and pushes the post to the web server where it's instantly on line.

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.

More details.

Help children learn to read

Chris Sheffield, with a little help from Scott Rossi, used LiveCode to develop One Minute Reader for Read Naturally, Inc.. It's an iPad app that provides learners a structured reading programme that applies research-based principles to keep them on track. Its engaging content helps them develop reading fluency, enhances their vocabulary and promotes comprehension.

Read all about One Minute Reader.

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.

Create fast-paced action games

Obleo Beck developed Pop Tone with LiveCode. It's a fast pace casual action board game for iPad with three game play modes.

More information.

Build a set of educational tools

Ludovic Thébault used LiveCode to build and then pull together a compendium of educational apps. It covers learning letters, the keyboard, mathematical operations, conjugating verbs and much more.

Get work, track work, bill work ... on the go

Andy Piddock is working on an Android Quotation, Job tracking, Invoicing and Reporting app. Written in LiveCode, it syncs to an online MySQL database and has a web based admin panel for employers to push jobs to their workers out in the field. 

Keep better control of your stock

Encres Dubuit, a french manufacturer of printing inks, used LiveCode to build a front-end to their ERP system for stock entry. It allows them to add many specific controls during the process and as a result significantly reduce the risk of human error.

Add a fully searchable index to your eBooks

James Hale is developing a search and annotation tool for ePubs in LiveCode. It will be just like getting all your ePub books indexed even when the book doesn't have an index itself.

It uses the XML and SQLITE libraries that are part of Livecode to read in an ePub and uses the full text search capabilities of SQLITE to perform near instantaneous text searches. The screenshot shows the search panel after three words have been entered and one possible combination chosen to display.

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.

Drag n' drop song composition

Scott Rossi put together this easy to use music app using draggable "tiles" to control a music player, part of a kids' music instruction software package.

Develop and run your corporate web site

Encres Dubuit is a French ink manufacturer listed on the Paris stock exchange. They developed their website in LiveCode to run under LiveCode server.

Encres Dubuit