This Week In LiveCode 72

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

• Connecting a Sublime Text project to a Levure application running in the LiveCode IDE (video)
• 日常英語のようなプログラミング言語で1行ごとに何をやっているか確認しながらコードを書く: LiveCode tutorial in Japanese

Interesting discussions

• The selectedText for controls without focus: Allowing users to select text in fields that they can’t edit
• Squashed Turtles: Richmond implements turtle graphics in LiveCode
• Dictionary rewrite: Bernd continues to improve his IDE dictionary replacement
• Can the IDE script editor be improved

Updates in the LiveCode open source project

17 pull requests were merged since the last issue.

New LiveCode releases

• LiveCode 9.0-dp-5
• LiveCode 8.1.3

Notable changes

• Enable NFC tag reading on Android
• Add ability to specify local host/port when opening a socket

Bug of the week

Bug 19287 - clickLoc inconsistency between desktop (MacOS) and mobile (iOS)

The reporter discovered that the clickLock is the location where the mouse was pressed when running on desktop, and the location where the touch was released when running on a mobile device. The problem was extremely well-explained, and the reporter provided an easy-to-use code sample.

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

• livecodeali
• livecodeian
• livecodemichael
• livecodepanos
• livecodesebastien
• montegoulding
• peter-b
• runrevelanor
• runrevmark

Upcoming events

• 2nd March: SoCal LiveCode Group meetup

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