This Week In LiveCode 39
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
Tell us about some exciting things you’re doing with LiveCode Community edition!
Interesting discussions
- Quirk in group resize behaviour
- The limitations of htmlText
- “move… to the points” for animation
- LCB array syntax
Updates in the LiveCode open source project
30 pull requests were merged since the last issue.
Notable changes
- Compile the engine as C++11
- New return forms to return values and errors
- Replace
MCObjectHandle
with an RAII version: Will prevent many crashes
Help needed!
Want to get involved in the LiveCode open source project but don’t know where to start? Try one of these!
- (Easy) Make documentation for
dgText[true]
less ambiguous - (Easy) Add a default script for scrollbars
- (Medium) Add a
load extensions
command that loads multiple extensions at once - (Hard) Support non-LF line endings in script-only stacks
Contributors this week
Upcoming events
- 7th July: SoCal LiveCode Group meetup
- 2nd-4th August: LiveCode Conference 2016