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Welcome to the Livecode Wiki

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Welcome to the wiki about the LiveCode. We’re a collaborative community website about your topic that anyone, including you, can edit. Click the edit button at the top of any page to get started!

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LiveCode is an open source programming language.

LifeCode is free for open source projects.

LiveCode helps you create apps for multiple platforms in few minutes. Quickly. Easily. Free.

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The latest version of livecode is 9.6

• The latest version of LiveCode Community Edition can be downloaded for free.

• All versions of LiveCode from 4.5 to the latest version can be downloaded for $.

• Linux users please read about this bug on some distros and how to solve it.

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This wiki contains many sub-pages. Tip: Use the search box to find more information.

Other LiveCode resource are listed on the Links page.

Table of contents

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• Introduction to LiveCode
• Introduction to the language script
• Introduction to the IDE
• Stacks and cards
• LiveCode IDE tools (buttons, sliders, etc.)
  • button
  • tab panel
  • field
  • data grid
  • scrollbar
  • image area
  • player
  • group
  • widget
  • Aligning, spacing and distributing objects
  • Other tools
• Draw controls
  • rectangle
  • rounded rectangle
  • oval
  • regular polygon
  • polygon (irregular)
  • line
  • freehand
  • freehand polygon
  • fill, line color and type tools
• Paint controls
  • select tool
  • bucket
  • spray
  • eraser
  • polygon
  • curve
  • pencil
  • brush
  • fill, line color and type tools
• LiveCode script language
  • comments
  • variables
  • arrays
  • properties
  • custom properties
  • operators
  • messages
    • message list
  • functions
  • commands
  • getprop
  • setprop
  • if
  • switch
  • repeat (while, until, for n times, for to step, for each, ...)
  • special keywords
  • expressions
  • error codes
• Property Inspector
• Code editor
• Project browser
• Object library
• Message watcher
• Start Center
• LiveCode file format
• Printing
• Databases
  • Access
  • CouchDB
  • Filemaker Pro
  • MariaDB
  • Microsoft SQL server
  • MySQL
  • OracleDB
  • PostgreSQL
  • SQLite
  • ValentinaDB
• Compressing (zip)
• PDF
• How to do it in LiveCode
• 3rd party library
• Specific platform:
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Mac
  • Android
  • iOS
  • Raspberry Pi
  • webserver
  • HTML5
• Old Newsletter
• Links
• Made with Livecode