Develop a web aggregator

Scott McDonald developed the LiveCode Super Site to simplify finding the latest questions and answers about LiveCode. He was able to quickly write a simple "screen scraping" stack on his Windows 7 laptop that gets information from the web from Stack Overflow, Use-LiveCode mailing list and the RunRev Forums. He then turned it into a standalone application, built for OS X, and runs it on his Mac Mini media server. After processing the data every hour (which is straightforward with the string processing capabilities built into LiveCode), his app uploads the refreshed html pages via ftp to the server hosting the site. Scott enters the blog entries by hand, but said "if the number of LiveCode related blogs increases I will automate that part too!"

The LiveCode Super Site.

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).

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 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.

Mirror or Reverse text

René Micout built this simple application in LiveCode for a friend who needed to regularly mirror text.

Jacqueline Landman Gay also wanted to reverse some text. She put together this 5 line script in under a minute to do so.

Get Word documents easily into Joomla

Scott McDonald maintains a website that gets contributions in the form of MS Word Documents. Pasting the text direct from Word into Joomla never works. There are just too many unnecessary HTML tags in the Word document. The resulting web pages are ugly. So he wrote a Convert Word utility that leaves in only the tags needed. It was quick and easy for him to develop in LiveCode.

Create 3D text

Andreas Klostermaier used LiveCode to generate 3D stereograms, like the famous Magic Eye images, but purely from ASCII text. These text-based
stereograms were used in a printed book for adolescents. The interface does not look very exciting: on the left side is some random ASCII text, the two middle columns contain the two stereoscopic perspectives of the text that is to show up in 3D and the right hand column delivers the finished document in which the LiveCode script has embedded the 3D elements in certain patterns for the stereogram-effect.

Build a spell checker you can carry around in your pocket

Scott McDonald wanted a single dictionary for all the browsers he uses and which can run on both Macs and PCs. He wrote it in LiveCode and keeps it on a USB drive. Now he always has a spell checker that has his customisations, no matter where he is.

Easily process complex data within text

David Coker uses LiveCode to process complex data within text.

He says:

 "It's very easily to build custom applications to automate, manipulate and

process highly complex textual data, based on any number of guidelines

or rules that might be required. Nothing beats LiveCode when it comes

to processing textual data."