This Week In LiveCode 71

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

• Library for using associative arrays as indexed arrays
• Over-the-air installation on iOS
• How to run a hidden standalone under OSX

Updates in the LiveCode open source project

30 pull requests were merged since the last issue.

Notable changes

• Allow script-only stacks in deploy params: You can now deploy script-only stacks as standalones
• Remove revFont in favour of the commands added in 6.5
• Ensure browser widget doesn’t get stuck handling JavaScript

Bug of the week

Bug 19266 - Android native text control keyboard issue with ‘Go’, ‘Search’ and ‘Send’ return types

The reporter found a really interesting bug in Android standalones that use native text controls with certain return types. When tapping the return button, sometimes the keyboard gets “stuck” and won’t go away. The sample stack that the reporter provided lets you test all possible values for the returnKeyType and clearly demonstrates the bug.

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
• trevordevore
• livecodeali
• livecodefraser
• livecodepanos
• montegoulding
• peter-b
• runrevmark

Upcoming events

• 25th February: eHUG International Mini Conference on LiveCode: Antwerp, Belgium

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