This Week In LiveCode 9

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

News & blog posts

• How to Add a Web Browser to Your App
• Fight Flat with Fancy

New releases & project updates

• revIgniter v1.7.4
• GLX2 editor plugin 19 beta 5

Interesting discussions

• Formatting a number with two or more decimal points
• Calculating the sum of a lot of primes

Updates in the LiveCode open source project

70 pull requests were merged in the last week.

The bug tracker has now moved to http://quality.livecode.com/.

New LiveCode releases

• LiveCode 8.0.0 dp 9
• LiveCode 7.1.1 rc 3
• LiveCode 6.7.8 rc 3

Notable changes

• Refactor precedence levels in LiveCode Builder
• Modify the Application Browser to run as a plugin
• Re-enable geometry manager for LiveCode 8 IDE
• Remove extension store infrastructure from IDE

Sponsored by FMPro Migrator:

• Add color customisation properties to segmented control

Contributors this week

• BerndN
• montegoulding
• livecodeali
• livecodefraser
• livecodeian
• livecodepanos
• livecodesebastien
• peter-b
• runrevelanor
• runrevmark

Upcoming events

• 3rd December: SoCal User Group meeting, Pasadena, USA
• 30th-31st January: FOSDEM 2016 (LiveCode meet-up TBC)