This Week In LiveCode 35
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This week’s edition was edited by peter-b and livecodepanos.
Updates from the LiveCode open source community
News & blog posts
- The crowdfunding campaign for improving LCB’s foreign function interface finished, with everything funded apart from the third “stretch goal” of a Mobile Native Field Widget.
- Removing Quicktime dependency from LiveCode’s Player object: All about the new player implementation for Windows
- Text-turning widget by Bernd Niggemann
Interesting discussions
- Designing a stack for Android tablets
- How to get data from a browser widget
- Patterns and MetaCard compatibility
- Confusion over builds: Milestones and branches and releases, oh my!
Updates in the LiveCode open source project
41 pull requests were merged since the last issue.
New LiveCode releases
Bug report of the week
Bug 17747 - Widgets do not respond to mouse events in popup stacks
This report is particularly helpful because:
- it has a clear and descriptive title.
- it contains a simple sample stack that clearly demonstrates the problem
- it contains detailed step-by-step instructions on how to replicate the bug.
- it clearly states what is the expected and what is the observed result
- it contains an example where the same recipe does not cause a bug.
Notable changes
- Search for LCB extensions: Now LCB widgets and libraries can be detected automatically by the standalone Builder
- Make using curly braces a syntax error: The undocumented subscript syntax
tArray{"key"}has been removed - Fix field chunk addition logic:
Contributors this week
- techstrategies
- trevordevore
- livecodeali
- livecodefraser
- livecodeian
- livecodepanos
- montegoulding
- peter-b
- runrevmark