This Week In LiveCode 70

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

• Bernd’s alternative dictionary stack, v0.2
• Using LiveCode for data visualisation in molecular biology

Interesting discussions

• Processing huge images in 32-bit engines
• urlProgress message incompatibility with Internet library
• Offline PDF viewing inside Android browser widget
• Script-local variables in library stack scripts
• Where does the response data from a PUT request end up?

Updates in the LiveCode open source project

34 pull requests were merged since the last issue.

New LiveCode releases

• LiveCode 8.1.3 rc 2

Notable changes

• Make sure ASLR is taken into account on Mac: Allows LiveCode to be built with the macosx10.9 SDK, which allows it to be built with libc++, which permits the use of the C++11 standard library
• Relatedly, Update Mac builds to use libc++
• Replace config.sh script with Python script and Re-implement some buildbot build steps in Python: Avoid using make or bash for builds to make it easier to build on Windows
• Add access to LCS delimiter local properties to LCB: You can now use the line delimiter, the row delimiter, the column delimiter and the item delimiter in LiveCode Builder widgets and libraries

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
• techstrategies
• livecodeali
• livecodeian
• livecodepanos
• montegoulding
• peter-b
• runrevmark

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