LiveCode

LiveCode is a cross-platform rapid application development runtime environment that develops apps for several Unix-like OS including Linux, Raspbian, Solaris and BSD. It also develops apps for the Android, Windows 95 and up.
Unfortunately Apple does not allow opensource apps written under
the GPL (General Public License) and requires a commercial license to be purchased to write iOS apps.

Functions

  • iComma() A function to insert commas into a number to separate it into groups of three.

  • hms() A function to convert seconds to display as Hours:Minutes:Seconds

  • isLeapyear() A function that determines if a year is a leap year.

  • getMonthLayout() A function to return the number of days in a month. It includes a leap year algorithm to determine if February has 28 or 29 days and a method for determining the offset for the 1st day of the month.

  • Simple Functions4U Some short functions:

    • isDiff () Compares two strings to return a true/false. It is case-sensitive so isDiff("Whatcha Doin" ,"whatcha doin" ) will return a true.

    • isLetter() Like the isNumber, it returns a true or false if a single character is a letter or not.

    • isAlpha() A function that individually tests each character in a string to determine if whole string is purely letters.

    • isSymbol() Returns true or false depending if a character is a symbol or not.

    • quote1() Encloses a string with single quotes.

    • quote2() Encloses a string with quotes.

    • ohmsLaw() A function for calculating Ohm's Law. Given two out of Volts, Amps and Ohms it will return the third.

Some Code Snippets


References