This Week In LiveCode 2

Welcome to This Week in LiveCode! LiveCode is a high-level language with an easy-to-learn English-like syntax. This is a weekly summary of what’s been going on in the LiveCode open source project and community. Want something mentioned? Tweet @LiveCode or send us an e-mail. Want to get involved? We welcome contributions.

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This week’s edition was edited by peter-b.

Updates from the LiveCode open source community

Blog posts and new releases

• Introducing LiveCode’s New Feature Exchange Platform
• Why Rainbows and Leprechauns Cut no Ice in Edinburgh

New releases

• Revigniter Dark Syntax Theme for Atom 0.1.0
• New Release: lcLipsum Plugin for LiveCode

Interesting discussions

• Platform-specific file path delimiters
• Lots of HTML5 demos
• LiveCode: observations

Updates in the LiveCode open source project

29 pull requests were merged in the last week.

New LiveCode releases

• LiveCode 8.0.0 dp 5
• LiveCode 7.1.0
• LiveCode 6.7.7

Notable changes

• [emscripten] Enable running the LiveCode Builder virtual machine: You can now use widgets in HTML5 standalones.
• [[ Bug 15784 ]] Load plugins on startup: Many issues with plugins and the LiveCode 8 IDE have been resolved.
• [[ Switch Button ]] Added Android themes

Contributors this week

• techstrategies
• livecodeali
• livecodegeorgia
• livecodepanos
• livecodesebastien
• peter-b
• runrevmark

Upcoming events

• 2nd October: Ohio Linux Fest - LiveCode BOF - TBC
• 5th October - 6th October: LiveCode 8 Global Jam
• 24th October: Linux Day presentation in Regio Emilia, Italy
• LiveCode meeting in the Netherlands TBC