Team Organisation and Time Tracking

Roberto Trevisan of TD Software used LiveCode to help his small business customers organise and track how their employees time was spent in a cost effective manner. He built TCal, a time tracking calendar, that records events, deadlines and working hours on companies' own management databases. It works with a company's existing database which could be running in FileMaker Pro, Microsoft Access or MySQL.

The Tcal client allows employees to manage their events and times through a graphical calendar interface.

The TcalServer manages company shared calendars and interfaces to the company's own management database.

Tcal not only runs on both Microsoft Windows and Mac OSX, it is also available in both Italian and English. It is a testimony to both Roberto's development skills and the breadth and flexibility of LiveCode.

More about Tcal.

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 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.

Program flashing light displays

Craig Newman made an application for a multinational retailer that controls 80 LED's set into Strass crystals that are mounted onto a large pink wooden display in their stores. The app is essentially a console that allows the user to set patterns, rates and dimming levels among the LED's, creating choreographed scenes that are stored internally. These may be played back as desired in any combination.

The application communicates with the external world via a USB interface device that takes LiveCode commands and translates them into both digital and pulse width modulated waveforms. The output of the device connects to drivers that power the LED's.

Some of the displays are in Muslim countries, and the application turns the display off at preset prayer times during the day.

Build a 'Vox Pop' Kiosk

Cogapp (www.cogapp.com) built a Vox Pop kiosk for the Tate Modern.

I'll let them elaborate:

"Combining online and video technologies with the rise of social media and the popularity of contemporary art, this project enabled visitors to "Sunflower Seeds", Ai Weiwei’s exhibition at Tate Modern in London, to engage in a global dialogue about the work.

A series of video booths installed in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern allowed visitors to record questions and comments for the artist, or send a video answer to one of the artist’s pre-recorded questions.

The software on the booths, presenting a dynamic and engaging interface in English and Chinese, and recording the video clips of visitors, was created in LiveCode.  Without LiveCode, we doubt if we could have created it with the same quality and in the limited time available."

Read what the Tate had to say.