This Week In LiveCode 68

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

• Curry Kenworthy has made some videos about LiveCode:
  • How to download LiveCode - find the right version
  • LiveCode “Fight Night” - How to test computer programming engine performance
• revIgniter v1.9.5 Released

Interesting discussions

• Dictionary rewrite - thoughts, please: Mike Kerner is starting a new project
• Not working as expected?: hh’s guide to HTML5 standalone troubleshooting
• Unusual field backspaceKey behaviour on Android
• Detecting clicks in the Segmented Control widget
• Text decoding and JSON arrays

Updates in the LiveCode open source project

42 pull requests were merged since the last issue.

Notable changes

• LCB: Implement record type definitions: It is now possible to define a record type in LCB composed of named, typed fields. The syntax for creating and accessing them hasn’t been defined yet, though.
• HedgeHao fixed some defects on Android:
  • Fix inconsistent result of specialFolderPath("resources")
  • Disable keyboard suggestion when entering password in Android native input field

Bug of the week

Bug 19157 - too many null-bytes hang the debugger

When filling a variable with lots of null bytes, i.e. numToByte(0), the variable pane in the script editor may hang. The reporter provided very clear description of the problem, with easy-to-follow steps to reproduce and a simple and effective sample stack.

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) selectionChanged does not appear in the player object page of the dictionary
• (Easy) Fix format of mobileControlDo dictionary entries
• (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
• livecodeali
• livecodepanos
• peter-b
• runrevmark

Upcoming events

• 2nd February: SoCal LiveCode Group meetup

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