VISA Screen - (Visual Impairment Screening)

 A screening tool to aid in the detection of visual problems.

The Vision Impairment Screening Assessment (VISA) screening tool is intended to aid detection for visual problems outside ophthalmic clinics and practices. It is intended to aid screening and identification of visual problems after which the referral form should be used to refer the individual to formal eye care services for full investigation and diagnosis of the visual issue. VISA contains the following sections:

- Patient history

- Visual acuity

- Ocular alignment and movement

- Kinetic visual field test

- Visual inattention

Phil Jimmieson

VISA Screen can be found on the Apple Store

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/visa-screen/id1515930083

Poetry Explorer - Get inside a poem or piece of prose

Poetry Explorer is for anyone interested in getting inside a poem or prose excerpt, and seeing interactively how it works — rather than leaving it as a dead two-dimensional thing, flat on the page, like a set-text.

We also hope it may be attractive to younger people who like apps but don’t think they like reading on the page. Or to people who, naturally enough, are skeptical about ‘poetry’ as if it were a remote, difficult and specialist arty thing.

There is a split-screen option so two people can do it together – two friends, parent and child, teacher and student. Or just you making two different attempts that you wish to compare. In addition, there's a "fridge poetry" mode, where you can make changes to a poem by dragging words around.

Phil Jimmieson

Poetry Explorer can be found on the Apple Store

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/poetry-explorer/id1536973486

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. 

Help people learn French

Alain Vézina set up a small language learning centre for adults more than 20 years ago. At that time, he looked for activities on computer to help students and didn't find much. So he started computing to create the kind of apps of which he dreamt. He started with HyperCard, continued with SuperCard and for several years used LiveCode.

One of those apps he developed in LiveCode is named A-mots-couverts. It is a new type of language game, a kind of crisscross puzzle in varied, interesting texts. The user consolidates and enhances their knowledge and abilities in all aspects of French. There are numerous skills, abilities and knowledge put to the test: listening ability, memorising, reading, text analysis (main idea, secondary ideas), usual spelling, grammatical spelling, syntax, vocabulary, synonyms, antonyms, words of the same family, conjugation, tense conformance, phrases and expressions. It stirs up the user’s interest in learning French in all its forms: oral, read and written. There are three difficulty levels and at the highest difficulty level, challenges are issued to the strongest students.

"It is extremely educational. It's very addictive. I love it" according to Delia Dyer, one of Alain's students.

A-mots-couvert is available for Mac, Windows and iPad. Learn more about A-mots-couvert. 

It's in both the iOS AppStore and the Mac AppStore.

Help People Keep Safe at Sea

Adam Hyde is a volunteer member of Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue (RCM-SAR), a non-profit organisation providing marine search and rescue off the coasts of British Columbia, Canada. He had the idea for an App that would help distressed amateur sailors to know what to do in most emergency situations. He didn't have any programming experience and couldn't afford to get somebody else to write the App.

He couldn't realise his dream until he came across LiveCode. I'll let Adam tell the rest of the story:

"The App was approved first time by Apple thanks to LiveCode. Even more amazing was that I essentially had a working first version in less than two months, working part-time with no prior programming experience. I spent the next three months dealing with legal and content issues which held up the release. During that time I just kept improving things."

"We truly believe that our App will help save lives.  All the information is there for a distressed boater to know what to do in most emergency situations and have that information right on the phone they have in their pocket."

Take a look at Adam's App.

Code an App store accepted game in a week

Dave Probert wrote a complete iPad game (from idea to App store submission) in just a week using Livecode.  The actual approval process took longer than the time it took to write the code!

The game is HexThello - a 2 player boardgame based on the 'Reversi/Othello' type of rules, but using a hexagonal grid instead of the usual squares.  This gives it an added extra two directions of action and requires a little more thought during play.  The game has three modes: two player, one player, and even no player - the program plays itself.

Dave explained "LiveCode provides a medium that was quick to produce a prototype of the game, and then to enhance and develop the final working product in just a few days.  The cleaning up and testing was another couple of days.  For the most part it was quite a painless process.  For anyone out there who is looking at creating a 2D game and wants a lot of control over the precise action, then Livecode is a good solution."

It's in the AppStore.

Teach the fundamentals of electronics

Basic Electronics Stage 1 was written by Geoff and Dave Probert in LiveCode for both iPads and Androids. 

It aims to teach the fundamentals of electricity and electronics to anyone starting on the exciting path to Technology. It is just the first in a series of apps to be written over the next couple of years.  In fact Stage 2 is currently in preparation, targeted for release in June.

The texts are written in English and in Thai, with simple switching between the two languages.

Find out more.

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.

Learn the Cyrillic alphabet

Devin Asay used LiveCode to build his first iOS app. Drawing on his academic background in Russian, Devon created a Cyrillic alphabet tutor for iPad. It includes letter cards for each letter, knowledge checks and games to help the user test visual recognition of the letters.

Simulate intra-galatic radio waves

Roger Quay developed SETIsyncProb in LiveCode for the iPad. It is an accurate visual simulation of the synchronicity problem that exists when intelligent civilisations try to detect one another. Roger donated his app to the SETI Institute so that all proceeds go to them.

Its in the App Store.

Build mobile games

Andre Garzia wrote a couple of simple mobile games for an upcoming book on developing mobile games with LiveCode.

Develop a child and family training assessment tool

This Much! is interactive visual analogue scale software developed by Phil Jimmieson in LiveCode for iPads. Invaluable for paediatric nurses, child therapists, school counsellors, psychologists and psychotherapists, it generates both quantitative data and qualitative information, using a combination of graphics, text, symbols and images (including photographs). It can be very quickly adapted to explore and quantify almost any symptom or facet of experience.

It allows children and adults with intellectual disabilities to generate and manipulate graphic representation on a scale customised to his or her particular needs. Ratings can be made using figures representing people, any digital image or any text label. The scale can be easily adapted and enhanced with icons to aid understanding.

It's in the App Store.

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.

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 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. 

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.

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 interactive pocket floral guides

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

Help navigate a boat

Paul Hibbert recently attended a boating course, I'll let him tell the story.

"During the boating course they taught how to do chart plotting calculations manually using a regular calculator. The potential for a LiveCode app to make life easier soon became obvious, so after an evening of playing around with some code I came up with a nautical calculator app on my PC.

The next stage was getting the app onto my iPhone. The LiveCode Mobile Development Beginners Guide by Colin Holgate was an invaluable resource, it just took away all the uncertainty and answered all of the questions I came up against.

After a few more evenings reading Colin's book, the app was on my iPhone ready for the next boating lesson, my homework was a breeze after that and I passed the course with ease."

Organise the distribution of promotional materials

A division of one of the world's most prestigious watch makers asked Simon Asato to help them streamline their distribution of promotional materials to retailers. They wanted the retail shops to be able to order displays, posters, duratrans etc. from a single source. He used LiveCode to build an app that shows current visual campaigns and allows retailers to place orders either via email or print to pdf. The app runs on multiple devices. This is what it looks like on an iPad.