This Week In LiveCode 75
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
Interesting discussions
- Problem with converting time
- SFTP with .PPK file
- Translating escape sequences
- Color manipulation
- Widget usage examples, by Hermann Hoch
- A painting app written in LiveCode that runs on the desktop, on an iPad and in a browser, by John Dixon
Updates in the LiveCode open source project
13 pull requests were merged since the last issue.
Notable changes
- Fix relayer object to numbered layer
- Send keyboardActivated and keyboardDeactivated msgs when status bar is hidden on Android
- Refactor object message clear
Bug of the week
Bug 19411 - Combine array by column is broken in 9.0 DP-5
The reporter attached a nice and very helpful sample stack, which helped us to test, identify and fix 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
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