This Week In LiveCode 51

Welcome to This Week in LiveCode! 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.

Updates from the LiveCode open source community

News & blog posts

LiveCode 8.1: A major minor release
LiveCode Widgets: Modifying the line chart
Accounting for new widget properties in an OnLoad handler
Bernd posted an experimental patch that enables code folding in the script editor
“Thread the Needle” Game
Research presented at ICER2016 showed lower overall cognitive load for LiveCode developers

Interesting discussions

Maintaining order in JSON imports: Exploring all the available ways of importing/exporting JSON data
Extending the IDE menu bar
Why isn’t the tsNet external open source?

Updates in the LiveCode open source project

47 pull requests were merged since the last issue.

New LiveCode releases

LiveCode 8.1.0

Notable changes

Fix slow performance of trueWord chunk: @runrevmark managed to speed it up by a factor of 100 or so
Improve tokenisation of numbers and add hex and bin literals: Use 0xABCD and 0x0010 literals in LCB source code
Allow newer JDKs to be used for Android builds: You no longer need to keep JDK 6 around for Android deployment

Help needed!

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

(Easy) Inset the border path of the segmented control by the stroke width / 2
(Easy) Add a default script for scroll bars
(Easy) Document the scriptExecutionErrors property
(Medium) Teach the Project Browser to show parent behaviours
(Medium) Make guide outlines in the Dictionary expand/collapse with repeated clicks
(Medium) Reduce whitespace in Dictionary

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