This Week In LiveCode 43

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

News & blog posts

Updates to LiveCode’s platform support policy
revIgniter v1.9.0 released: Includes a new JSON Web Token helper.
Update on WordPress/LiveCode coding webinars

Interesting discussions

Updates in the LiveCode open source project

28 pull requests were merged since the last issue.

Notable changes

Modify stack file format to allow block offsets to exceed UINT16_MAX: A clipboard bug turned out to be a field bug that needs a new 8.1 stack file format to fix!
Ensure _mainStacksChanged isn’t sent to a deleted stack: Fix for many nasty crashes
Complete tokenOffset implementation
Add ideControlMoved message

Bug of the week

Bug 18025 - Widget problems in Ubuntu 16.04

This bug is about some problems with widgets, including the browser widget, found on Ubuntu Linux 16.04.

The reporter was very helpful, both over e-mail and on the bug report. Because he made a copy of his Ubuntu virtual machine available to us, we were able to easily reproduce his bug. Even better, we were able to use his VM to reproduce 5 other bugs that we were previously unable to, meaning that we are now able to make some progress with fixing them.

Help needed!

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