This Week In LiveCode 83
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
- Dispatching Messages to Closed Stacks Which Are Not in Memory
- Identical and similar blend modes
- Writing Extensions
- Android policy update
- Sort so that “Hello” is always before “hello”
- browser print?
- Which port is beeing used with get URL?
- Sql problem
- How are URL / libUrl / tsNet related?
- Which Externals does a standalone load?
- Best Practice for updating the screen?
- breakpoint on parameter
Updates in the LiveCode open source project
40 pull requests were merged since the last issue.
Notable changes
- Relative file support for stackfiles
- SkiaUpdate: Reinstate stipple effect
- SkiaUpdate: Reinstate diamond, spiral, XY and sqrtXY gradients
- Overhaul message box execution
- Ensure platform player is destroyed on close: This patch ensures that system resources do not get used whilst the player is not being used.
- Changed confusing dependency instructions in linux build doc
- Fixed bug preventing users to select txt of length 65535
- Restore lockIdleTimer’s value when camera is dismissed
- Fix various Project Browser update issues
- Fixed bug causing crash with undoChanged: Previous Bug of the Week is now fixed.
Bug of the week
The reporter attached a helpful sample stack, and provided a detailed recipe as well as a useful observation 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) “width” property dictionary entry missing words “lockLocation property” in description
- (Easy) Dictionary entry for compositorType says OpenGL is iOS only
- (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
- MartinKoob
- mwieder
- trevordevore
- livecodealex
- livecodeali
- livecodefraser
- livecodemichael
- livecodepanos
- montegoulding
- 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.
Staff changes: Welcome to Chris and Alex and goodbye to Peter.
We’d love to welcome two new staff members who have just joined the team: Alex Brisan and Chris Colman. Alex has joined the development team and Chris is helping out with marketing. We’re delighted to have them and you’ll get to know them as they settle in and learn the ropes. You can read Alex’s introductory blog post here, and Chris will be making one soon!
Peter Brett has sadly left us for pastures new, we wish him all the best in his new post and he will of course be missed. Our thanks for his sterling contribution to advancing LiveCode over the last few years.
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