This Week In LiveCode 38

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

• Cross-platform app deployment with LiveCode is now even easier!
• revIgniter v1.8.2 released
• Exam results for students using LiveCode in Norway
• Educational resources for a LiveCode summer school

Interesting discussions

• All controls are objects but not all objects are controls
• It’s okay to ask beginner questions on the use-livecode mailing list
• Lying in the bath, but telling the truth: Converting old stacks to use LiveCode 7+ native Unicode support

Updates in the LiveCode open source project

30 pull requests were merged since the last issue.

Notable changes

• Implement player “callbacks” property on Windows
• Add eventFooKey methods for fetching synchronous key state
• Fix documentation examples that don’t compile
• Improved GPS support on Android and iOS
• LiveCode Infinite
  • Add LCB unsafe handlers and unsafe blocks
  • Add a LCB compiler test suite

Bug report of the week

Bug 17803 - LiveCode doesn’t parse certain ProxyServer formats properly when setting the HTTPProxy

• Detailed explanation of how the bug occurs and steps to reproduce it
• Report includes an outline of the correct algorithm that should be implemented to fix the bug

Help needed!

Want to get involved in the LiveCode open source project but don’t know where to start? Try one of these!

• (Easy) ’-‘ in Android app identifier isn’t allowed
• (Easy) Can’t use “&” character in the name of an Android app
• (Easy) Ctrl+Q shortcut not present in Linux script editor
• (Easy) Check MCRangeMake() is always used correctly
• (Medium) Changing shadow properties causes an error
• (Medium) Proxy server detection ignores ‘Use a proxy server for your LAN’
• (Medium) Sliders drawn too large on Windows 10
• (Hard) Correct implementation of “export snapshot” for Linux

Contributors this week

• asayd
• mwieder
• livecodeali
• livecodefraser
• livecodeian
• livecodepanos
• montegoulding
• peter-b
• runrevmark

Upcoming events

• 7th July: SoCal LiveCode Group meetup
• 2nd-4th August: LiveCode Conference 2016