This Week In LiveCode 69

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

• Trevor DeVore has created a new application framework & workflow called ‘levure’
  • Levure Application Framework on GitHub
  • Thoughts on using script only stacks and levure framework (video)
  • LiveCode Language package for SublimeText
• ReadBar: A basic barcode-checking app created at the January 2017 NHS HackDay in Cardiff
• How to create the Untrue Zoo in LiveCode: An intro to LiveCode for HyperCard enthusiasts (video)

Interesting discussions

• Creating applications that play well with version control software
• Converting scripts in stacks to script-only stack behaviors
• Difference between “html” and “htmlText” in clipboardData
• Dragging list items up and down
• Importing text on iOS
• How do you specify a Build Number for iOS apps?

Updates in the LiveCode open source project

22 pull requests were merged since the last issue.

Notable changes

• Allow modules to declare Android app requirements in metadata
• Allow sockets to send broadcast packets on Android
• Ensure correct debug context is used when executing in message box

Bug of the week

Bug 19209 - bgcolor in text not transferred to the public clipboard

On Linux, HTML-formatted styled text placed on the system clipboard doesn’t contain background colour information. The report contains a clear and detailed set of steps to reproduce the problem, along with a well-structured and self-explanatory 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

• asayd
• HedgeHao
• livecodeali
• livecodefraser
• livecodepanos
• montegoulding
• peter-b
• runrevmark

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