This Week In LiveCode 63

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: The “Spinner” Activity Indicator
• LiveCode is on Gitter
• Support LiveCode open source with OSS Membership

Interesting discussions

• Installer software
• Behaviors and the message path
• Compiler not catching bad exit within routine

Updates in the LiveCode open source project

30 pull requests were merged since the last issue.

Notable changes

• Show up to 10 nested behaviors in the Project Browser: This PR was submitted on behalf of BerndN, and it allows up to 10 nested behaviors to be shown in the PB.
• Reinstate text props and graphic effects to DataGrid Property Inspector: The LC-8 DataGrid Property Inspector was missing some text props and graphic effects. Now they are back :)
• LCB modules can declare Android app permissions and features: LCB module metadata is now checked for Android permissions which will be added to the manifest when building for Android.
• Set the maximum text length for an iOS native (single-line) input field: It is now possible to set/get the maximum number of characters that can be entered into an ios native single-line field, using the new “maximumTextLength” property
• Support multi-module assemblies in “load extension”
• Make sure CMYK images display correctly on Mac

Bug of the week

Bug 18924 - Mobile scroller misaligned when setting vScroll

When setting the initial vScroll for a newly created native scroller on Android, the resulting scroll is misaligned, causing incorrect (or sometimes no) scrolling behavior.

The reporter of this bug provided a clear, detailed recipe and a helpful sample stack that demonstrates the problem.

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

Contributors this week

• asayd
• BerndN
• trevordevore
• livecodeali
• livecodefraser
• livecodepanos
• peter-b
• runrevmark

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