This Week In LiveCode 40

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 and livecodepanos.

Updates from the LiveCode open source community

Happy 4th July to our American readers!

News & blog posts

• brimEng is a smartphone app for English language learning developed at Daffodil University, Dhaka.
• revIgniter v1.8.3 released
• revIgniter TextMate bundles v1.4.4 released

Interesting discussions

• Should the IDE apply scripts that don’t compile?
• Examining file permissions on Windows
• mergJSON, and strings vs. numbers

Updates in the LiveCode open source project

55 pull requests were merged since the last issue.

New LiveCode releases

• LiveCode 8.1.0-dp-2

Notable changes

• Don’t use QuickTime SDK when compiling Windows engine: revVideoGrabber is now the only component that needs QT.
• Indicate deprecated syntax in dictionary: Little warning triangles!
• Update datagrid guide: Massive update by jameshale

Bug of the week

Bug 17275 - altKey combo code not working with rawKeyDown using scanners

• The simple and effective example stack clearly demonstrates the problem.
• Excellent support/responsiveness from the reporter, who sent us all the required elements (even hardware from the USA!) to test for this bug
• Although the bug affected only an edge case, the excellent engagement from the reporter encouraged the development team to implement a fix much sooner than originally planned!

Help needed!

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

• (Easy) Add extra space when commenting out script
• (Medium) Transition IDE plugin messages to use publish/subscribe mechanism
• (Medium) Allow custom SVG paths for core widgets

Contributors this week

• asayd
• jameshale
• techstrategies
• livecodeali
• livecodeian
• livecodepanos
• montegoulding
• peter-b

Upcoming events

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