This Week In LiveCode 57
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
- More LCB examples from [-hh] on the forums: drawing a grid of rectangles, and listing a range of numbers
Interesting discussions
- [How do I codesign an app?]https://www.mail-archive.com/use-livecode@lists.runrev.com/msg79766.html)
- Overriding HTTPS certificate verification failure
Updates in the LiveCode open source project
56 pull requests were merged since the last issue.
Notable changes
- Updated versions of libxml, libpng, libgif, libjpeg, libexpat, and libpcre.
- New OAuth2 authentication library
- Add support for Xcode 8.1 / iOS 10.1
- Prevent crash on iOS 10 when the app wants to use the device’s microphone: Caused by a misplaced space character, of all things…
- Add MCSpan class for wrapping pointer + length pairs
Bug of the week
This bug report describes a keyboard navigation regression in the field. The recipe and sample stack make it really easy to reproduce the bug, and the reporter even included a GIF animation that shows the bug happening.
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
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