This Week In LiveCode 53

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

Interesting discussions

Analytical Engine - An Introduction to Computer Science: Lagi Pittas, Andrew Ferguson and Alejandro Tejada have dug up some 23-year-old HyperCard stacks
Can we move the user list to a Google chat?: Most people seem to still be happy with a mailing list
@trevordevore is looking for Help Adding Cookie support to libURL

Updates in the LiveCode open source project

52 pull requests were merged since the last issue.

Notable changes

Improve user feedback if breakpoint conditions are invalid: Nice improvement for debugging LiveCode stacks
Use more modern ColorSync APIs for generic profiles: Most of the work needed to get LiveCode to compile with the macosx10.11 SDK
Fix clipping of scrolling group content when acceleratedRendering used: Fix for a nasty bug experienced by many iOS developers

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

Contributors this week

Upcoming events

6th October: LiveCode for Education Industry kickoff meeting

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