This Week In LiveCode 24

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

• Better Theming in LiveCode 8
• revIgniter v1.8.1

Interesting discussions

• Look and Feel in LC8
• Write to IPTC Core Data of image files

Updates in the LiveCode open source project

52 pull requests were merged since the last issue.

Notable changes

• Implement the ‘replace in field’ command: Feature Exchange “find and replace that preserves formatting” feature
• Add an element chunk type to enhance widget property access: Access structured widget data much more flexibly
• Improvements to all the core widgets in the IDE!
  • Switch button
  • SVG path
  • Tree view
  • Segmented control
  • Clock

Contributors this week

• livecodeali
• runrevelanor
• livecodeian
• montegoulding
• peter-b
• runrevmark

Upcoming events

• 2nd-4th August: LiveCode Conference 2016