This Week In LiveCode 14

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

This Week in LiveCode is back from Christmas vacation. Happy New Year to the whole LiveCode community!

News & blog posts

• How to create plugins and tools for the LiveCode 8.0 IDE
• Exporting LiveCode to HTML5: This Could Change Everything

Interesting discussions

• Dictionary alternatives
• Scrolling smoothly through large scripts
• LiveCode Server and script only stacks

Updates in the LiveCode open source project

44 pull requests were merged since the last issue.

New LiveCode releases

• LiveCode 8.0.0 dp 12
• LiveCode 7.1.1
• LiveCode 6.7.8

Notable changes

• Add ‘Show Documentation’ contextual menu item for all object types
• Allow use of the PB without affecting current selection or focus: The project browser now only navigates/selects when the item is double-clicked
• Reorganise & improve guides

Contributors this week

• montegoulding
• livecodeali
• livecodefraser
• livecodepanos
• peter-b
• runrevmark

Upcoming events

• 7th January: SoCal LiveCode meetup
• 30th-31st January: FOSDEM 2016 (LiveCode meet-up TBC)
• 4th February: LiveCode Toronto meetup (venue TBC)
• 2nd-4th August: LiveCode Conference 2016