This Week In LiveCode 58

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 widgets: more line chart madness
• revIgniter v1.9.4 released
• The Hacktoberfest event is over! Thank you to everybody who took the opportunity to start contributing to the LiveCode open source project during October

Interesting discussions

• Dealing with multiple stacks with the same name
• Getting prompt screen updates in HTML5 standalones
• Computing the convex hull of of a set of points using LCB
• Loss of access to stacks after “Save As”: It’s best not to reference a stack by its filename after it’s been loaded into memory

Updates in the LiveCode open source project

29 pull requests were merged since the last issue.

Notable changes

• Add support for deploying to the iOS 10.1 simulator: Because Apple changed the APIs again
• Massively expanded JSON test suite and conformance fixes
• New spinner widget
• Update sqlite to version 3.15.0: Includes FTS5 support

Bug of the week

Bug 18628 - Random ‘jumping’ of LCB path elements

This bug was found when the reporter was building a really clever “polygon editor” widget. When the widget is resized, some of the points in the polygon jump around in a bizarre way. The widget demonstrates some very innovative uses of LiveCode Builder.

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

• andrewferguson
• asayd
• seaniepie
• techstrategies
• livecodeian
• livecodemichael
• livecodepanos
• montegoulding
• peter-b

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