This Week In LiveCode 66

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

Interesting discussions

• Android Keyboard Activation Issue
• Array Properties in a Standalone
• Documentation on Dispatch
• Question about code signing

Updates in the LiveCode open source project

24 pull requests were merged since the last issue.

Notable changes

• Local .html files can now be loaded into browser widget on Android: This bug was caused because of an incorrect path to local assets being passed to browser widget.
• Fix incorrect behavior of files() and folders() under some circumstances on Android: A nasty bug, caused by the evaluation order of conditionals in an if statement (see Short-circuit evaluation).
• Xcode 8.2 / iOS 10.2 support
• Convert empty in LCS to empty list in LCB: This patch ensures that when empty is passed to an LCB library handler argument with type List, that the empty list is passed rather than throwing a type conversion error.
• Various fixes to defects detected by Coverity Scan Static Analysis tool.

Bug of the week

Bug 19051 - The endTime of a player can be set to a value greater that the duration

The simple and self-explanatory example stack, combined with the detailed recipe in the bug report, 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

• HedgeHao
• techstrategies
• livecodeali
• livecodepanos
• livecodesebastien
• montegoulding
• peter-b
• runrevmark

Upcoming events

• Greater Toronto Area LiveCode Meetup Jan 25, 2017

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