This Week In LiveCode 74

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

• LiveCode 9.0 DP 6 – Infinite LiveCode Preview
• brimmEng, a free English language learning app for Android that was developed with LiveCode, has been released

Interesting discussions

• Messages sent while mouse is down:
• LC for Raspberry Pi
• Searching “teh” or tihs”: Hermann Hoch has implemented a fuzzySearch algorithm in LiveCode script
• Breakpoints being ignored
• Trouble playing videos with MS DirectShow LC 8

Updates in the LiveCode open source project

33 pull requests were merged since the last issue.

New LiveCode releases

• LiveCode 9.0-dp-6

Notable changes

• Add support for building with Visual Studio 2015: This change will allow us to use some of the C++11 features, which are needed to update our Skia library to support emoji rendering.
• Update OpenSSL to version 1.1.0e
• Add messageDigest() function with SHA2 and SHA3 support
• Fix crash in standalone when connecting an IR Receiver
• Reposition native layer controls when resizing stacks
• Prevent crash when calling mobilePickMedia and correct return value

Bug of the week

Bug 19364 - Import snapshot uses wrong coordinates when a secondary monitor is connected

The reporter attached a nice and very helpful sample stack, which helped us to test and identify the problem quickly.

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
• (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
• livecodepanos
• montegoulding
• peter-b
• runrevmark

Upcoming events

• 6th April: SoCal LiveCode Group meetup

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