This Week In LiveCode 55

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: Yesterday and Today: Sarah Reichelt and Jerry Daniels talk about the evolution of HyperCard into LiveCode
• Coding Malaysia: Teaching thousands of primary school students with LiveCode in the Malaysian Coding@Schools program.
• Updated id3lib library for reading ID3 tags
• New SVG display widget
• Alternative dictionary stack by MaxV

Interesting discussions

• Reliably closing & deleting a stack
• Customising the IDE context menu

Updates in the LiveCode open source project

64 pull requests were merged since the last issue.

New LiveCode releases

• LiveCode 8.1.1-rc-2

Notable changes

• Support defaultNetworkInterface in accept: You can open a server socket that only listens on a specific network interface
• Segmented control fill was bleeding outside of the border: @trevordevore took on one of the “help needed” bugs
• Loads more dictionary documentation improvements from @asayd and @seaniepie

Bug of the week

Bug 18578 - Certain Gray Colornames variants throw an error when used

This bug occurred because of a subtle bug in the C++ source code for colour names: the names were listed in the “correct” order (Gray99 before Gray100), but in order for the engine to work properly they need to be listed in lexicographic order (i.e. Gray1, Gray10, Gray100, Gray11 etc.)

The test stack provided by the bug reporter was very simple, effective and self-explanatory, and came with a very good set of steps to reproduce the bug. The steps gave clear results that indicated exactly where the the problem was.

Help needed!

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

• (Easy) Update & complete documentation for the processor
• (Easy) Add a default script for scroll bars
• (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
• (Hard) Create a LiveCode Community build for Raspberry Pi

Contributors this week

• asayd
• seaniepie
• trevordevore
• livecodepanos
• livecodefraser
• livecodeian
• livecodepanos
• montegoulding
• peter-b
• runrevmark

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