This Week In LiveCode 15

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

• revIgniter v1.8 released
• Back to Work on Lloyd’s Video Analysis Tool With a Focus on Graphic Design

Interesting discussions

• Figuring out if something is on the current screen, or getting the current screen rect
• HTML5 update: why is it slow?
• Beyond POSIX time

Updates in the LiveCode open source project

31 pull requests were merged since the last issue.

Notable changes

• Add array expressions to LiveCode Builder: You can now use arrays as constants and construct arrays without lots of put statements
• Remove unwanted custom properties from script editor: Some IDE stacks were megabytes larger than they needed to be!
• Ensure ‘CanBeNative’-ness is preserved by concatenation where appropriate: Fixes the pink variables tab bug
• Ensure all dictionary files are included in the installer: Fixes the empty dictionary bug

Contributors this week

• mwieder
• livecodepanos
• peter-b
• livecodeali

Upcoming events

• 30th-31st January: FOSDEM 2016 (LiveCode meet-up with peter-b on Sunday, time/venue TBC)
• 4th February: LiveCode Toronto meetup with livecodefraser
• 2nd-4th August: LiveCode Conference 2016