This Week In LiveCode 21

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

• Merging with mergEXT
• LiveCode Report from the Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy

Interesting discussions

• Programmatically determine the average greyscale
• local and do commands
• Apple certificate expiration

Updates in the LiveCode open source project

32 pull requests were merged since the last issue.

New LiveCode releases

• LiveCode 7.1.2 rc 3
• LiveCode 6.7.9 rc 3

Notable changes

• Fix formattedheight to return a realistic value: The formattedHeight of a field control is much more accurate
• Fix Linux crash on exit after using browser widget

Contributors this week

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

Upcoming events

• 3rd March: SoCal LiveCode meetup
• 2nd-4th August: LiveCode Conference 2016