This Week In LiveCode 13

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

• Snowmaking in LiveCode
• Creating a custom tool to analyze Q sort data

Interesting discussions

• Sorting words: How should sort words of _ syntax work?
• Script indenting: and colorizing!

Updates in the LiveCode open source project

33 pull requests were merged in the last week.

New LiveCode releases

• LiveCode 8.0.0 dp 11

Notable changes

• Remove old font metrics: Improved text appearance, especially in HTML5 standalones
• Generate Emtepreter whitelist more cleverly: The HTML5 engine now supports wait syntax

Contributors this week

• trevordevore
• livecodeali
• livecodefraser
• livecodeian
• livecodepanos
• peter-b
• runrevmark

Upcoming events

• 30th-31st January: FOSDEM 2016 (LiveCode meet-up TBC)
• 4th February: LiveCode Toronto meetup (venue TBC)
• 2nd-4th August: LiveCode Conference 2016