This Week In LiveCode 64

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

This Week in LiveCode will be taking a couple of weeks off, and will return on 9th January!

News & blog posts

• When C uninitialised variables and misleading whitespace combine: The anatomy of a bug in the LiveCode engine
• LiveCode 8.1.3 will include Xcode 8.2 support

Interesting discussions

• Why regular expressions made subsequent statements run slowly
• Using wait until <condition> with messages for parallel code

Updates in the LiveCode open source project

42 pull requests were merged since the last issue.

New LiveCode releases

• LiveCode 8.1.2 rc 3

Notable changes

• Documentation and code style guide updates
  • Updated C++ style: The new C++ coding style makes use of C++11 features and changes the indentation style
  • Documentations style guide: Detailed guidance on the writing style for LiveCode documentation
• revvideograbber: Remove from Mac OS X builds: LiveCode 9 no longer supports Mac OS X 10.8 and below, so it isn’t possible to compile the revvideograbber external for Mac any more
• Check for script-only stacks in objchunk url resolution: It is now possible to load script-only stacks with go url <stackUrl>
• Add ‘Select All’ as a built-in field action: LiveCode fields now respond to <Cmd+A> or <Ctrl+A> by default

Bug of the week

Bug 18970 - Datagrid doesn’t respond to mouseDown handler on Android

The reporter documents a surprising difference in the way the datagrid works on Android platforms vs desktop platforms. The simple and self-explanatory example stack nicely 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
• (Medium) Add info on manipulating field contents to the User Guide
• (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
• seaniepie
• livecodeali
• livecodepanos
• montegoulding
• peter-b
• runrevmark

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