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I’m a medical professional and use stuff for medical apps. I love the immediacy of LiveCode but do not love where they have gone with it.
Always on the lookout for other options and I’m optimistic about HXT, so happy to contribute what I can.
Glad to have you aboard! We’re trying to get this up and running as quickly as possible but the mess we were left with is something else. Old code that needs to be brought kicking and screaming in to the future
I’m Richard. I’ve been doing this a while. I’ve seen some things. That’s the past.
In the present I have too many irons in the fire to offer much here at the moment which could be reliable.
But one of those smelting rods is a distant dream looking for a moment, a bridge, like how Celtic neopaganism slices through millennia of invasions to return a few locals to their roots with a dance and a headdress of simple oak leaves, perhaps to be hammered into an echo of the sword Boudica raised to lead her Iceni tribe to retake the plain that has fallen to the invader’s Londinium, to show Rome what it means to cross a savage, with painted faces and naked fury and all, piercing the phalanx’ lorica segmentata by gazing through it, focused beyond it, as though it isn’t there at all, and so preventing no advancement of rightful aims.
Time permitting.
And so I read here, and may write here now and then when it may be useful.
Hi Richard, thanks for joining the community. Just lurking is fine, so don’t feel like you have to post or anything like that. Thanks for the music video.
Good day! Actually, my discovery of Emily-Elizabeth’s HyperXTalk has made it a great day! (And thank you to all the other contributors whose names I do not yet know.)
I do not do any for-profit coding. I maintain an app I wrote for my wife many years ago and write some simple games for my grandkids. When my new M4 Air refused to launch LC Indy 9.0.5, I thought I would have to break out my old Windows box. HyperXTalk has saved me from that fate. Thank you many times over.
I’m sure I’ll run into some issue that needs reporting - is there any software that doesn’t? I’ll try to be helpful. I know the members of the LC community have been incredibly helpful to me in the past.
Hi Barry, welcome to the forums. Glad that HyperXTalk gives you a way to keep building for your grandchildren. Wait for the next release as it will have something that will hopefully make your games a little more “animated”
I’m Tim. I’ve began using Xtalks many years ago. I began with Hypercard, then SuperCard, and for the last few years, LiveCode. My coding is mostly just as hobby and a way to relax. I don’t know how much I can contribute to the cause, but will do what I can. I’m really impressed with the progess you’ve made and the direction this seems to be going.
I realize I never put up my shingle, so here’s a bit
While working at Apple in the 80s I got to know the WildCard/HyperCard team, and that changed my life.
A few years later (2001) I ran into RunRev in the form of Kevin and Mark at MacWorld Expo in San Francisco, thought about it for 24 hours, and signed up.
Since I had prior experience making SDKs, I cut a deal with Kevin to create an externals SDK for RunRev in exchange for a perpetual license. When we went open-source I contributed the code that brought us into the 64-bit world.
I’m happily retired now and have been Microsoft-free for (looks at calendar) some 14 years now, except for a two-week period where our corporate overlords in the UK tried to make us use Outlook for the Mac. And the fact that Microsoft bought github.
I have a dream of someday being able to compile the engine for the Raspberry Pi.
I essentially dropped out of the OXT project because everyone was working in a silo, so I’m very happy to be able to contribute a little bit to a community project, which is what FOSS is all about.
Sadly I still suffer with this… we’ve moved to NHS.net email (basically locked down MS Office 365), and the only email client considered “secure enough” is Outlook…
I do wish UK, or at least the NHS, would follow France’s example, but no chance of that :-/
Sadly in the UK, and especially the UK’s healthcare sector (NHS), this dependent on more factors than IT sovereignty concerns.
Beyond the numerous levels of politics with many rather corrupt representatives, there are many levels of IT where literally all have earned their positions through Microsoft IT certifications.
That is literally all they know and they resist any non-Microsoft derived solutions, because that’s their livelihood. I know this from multiple firsthand experiences sadly…
The notion of switching this to a Linux-based environment is a pipe dream for at least another decade if not two. i expect I’ll be well past retirement by the time that comes in, if it ever does…
IIRC it wasn’t so much email that was borked, it was Outlook’s calendaring that was incompatible with our sprint scheduling. Completely messed things up.
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