This Week In LiveCode 59

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

• Ignite your sites with revIgniter
• Infinite LiveCode: Java progress

Interesting discussions

• How to get LiveCode running on a Raspberry Pi 3
• Preventing keyboard display for an Android native field
• What speed advantage comes from a private handler?

Updates in the LiveCode open source project

37 pull requests were merged since the last issue.

New LiveCode releases

• LiveCode 8.1.2 rc 1

Notable changes

• Add do ... as JavaScript to HTML5 engine: Integrate your HTML5 apps with the rest of page
• treeview: Calculate only 1000 keys of subarray display data: Enables browsing really huge arrays with the Script Editor’s variable viewer
• Update OpenSSL to 1.1.0c and libcurl to 7.51.0: Adds support for the latest and most secure encryption algorithms
• Use object handles instead of global object pointers: Extensive low-level changes to ensure that if LiveCode crashes, it crashes consistently and reproducibly (so that the crashes can be fixed quickly)
• Add a document describing C++ language policies: Which C++ language features we use in LiveCode’s source code, and why

Bug of the week

Bug 18826 - Player displays a video window in upper left when navigating to another card

The reporter found an interesting bug in the Windows player’s rendering. The steps to reproduce are detailed and easy-to-follow, and the report includes both a test stack and a helpful screenshot illustrating the issue.

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

• mwieder
• techstrategies
• livecodeali
• livecodefraser
• livecodeian
• livecodepanos
• montegoulding
• peter-b

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