How do I modify a LiveCode widget
What do you do if a LiveCode widget is missing a property or message you need?
The source code for all the widgets provided 'out of the box' is accessible so you can take those widgets as a base and improve and extended them as you need.
In this lesson we will see how to prepare for adding features to the Line Graph widget.
Make a copy of the widget source
The first step is to make a copy of the Line Graph LCB source
- Create a new folder
- Copy the graph.lcb file from a LiveCode executable. The file can be found inside the LiveCode executable in
Tools/Extensions/com.livecode.widget.linegraph
- Set the properties of the copied file so it can be edited
Open the new LCB file
Open the new LCB file in your preferred text editor.
I am using Atom as it has a LiveCode package that provides colorization and indenting but any text editor will work for writing LCB.
Update the widget definition
Now update the widget metadata
- Set the widget identifier
- Set the author
- Set the version
- Set the title
- Set the icon svg path
Customize the widget
Now you are ready to make the changes you need to the line graph.
For an example of modifying the line chart see this blog post by Monte Goulding.
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