This Week In LiveCode 61
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
- What’s new in LiveCode 9.0 DP 2?
- Control your webpage with LiveCode HTML5
- Giving thanks to the LiveCode community for their help in solving a pending messages problem
- An HTML5 blackjack game using a REST API
- Transferring data between the browser and an HTML5 standalone
Interesting discussions
- External communication for HTML5 standalones
- JavaScript + LC HTML5 = LiveCode.js
- Stopping accepting socket connections
- Typing at an angle
Updates in the LiveCode open source project
19 pull requests were merged since the last issue.
New LiveCode releases
Notable changes
- Support for adding icon and splash screen for iPad Pro 12.9
- Allow any delimiter in card/group/control names: You can no longer break the Project Browser by giving a control a name containing a tab character
- Fix a crash on saving field data under obscure circumstances: Some complex stacks could get into a state where saving them would crash the engine and corrupt the stack file on disk
Bug of the week
The reporter found a very tricky bug in the LiveCode field in Android apps. It appears on Android lollipop devices when predictive text text and/or auto correction is enabled. The report is particularly good because it has a clear and easy-to-follow set of steps to reproduce, and a video of the problem as well. This seems to be a long-standing bug which will be exceedingly challenging to fix.
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) Make guide outlines in the Dictionary expand/collapse with repeated clicks
- (Medium) Reduce whitespace in Dictionary
- (Hard) Allow Windows line endings in script-only stacks
- (Hard) Create a LiveCode Community build for Raspberry Pi
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