This Week In LiveCode 81

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

• put x into URL… error on Windows network drive
• Calling a livecode executable -ui from LC server and get back a result
• http calls blocked by virus protection?
• looking for a smart approach to “sort” an array
• grabbing an SVG?
• User friendly functions to replace MySQL queries?
• tsNet and proxy servers

Updates in the LiveCode open source project

26 pull requests were merged since the last issue.

Notable changes

• Fix mirrored property on Mac: A nasty bug, affecting only OSX 10.11 and above, is now fixed.
• Defer deletion of script tab: A previous “Bug of the Week” is now fixed.
• Implement mirror property in windows directshow player: New feature for the player object on Windows!
• Fix inconsistent browser widget callbacks on iOS
• Allow deletion of a message’s target object in a frontscript

Bug of the week

Bug 19646 - Using mobile camera kills lockIdleTimer

The reporter attached a very helpful sample stack, and provided a detailed recipe that helped us to test and confirm 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

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

Other LiveCode News

This section brings you other interesting news from across the LiveCode universe over the last week. This section may include non OSS projects.

• tinyDictionary 0_8_1_0: TinyDictionary is a small footprint dictionary for LiveCode (version 8.1 and up), developed by Bernd Niggemann.
• PowerTools 2.0: PowerTools is a drop-in plugin replacement for the IDE’s built-in tools palette, developed by Mark Wieder.
• New tsNet version: Expected in LiveCode 8.1.4 RC2

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