This Week In LiveCode 88

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

• Preference for Keeping Saved Empty Button Scripts Empty
• put url tricks to copy files on windows
• Display PDF in Browser Widget Error?
• First 1000 characters without loop?
• Android native widgets
• Widgets as Buttons
• Creating installers when packaging a Levure application
• Set the imagesource of a character to a built in graphic
• Inconsistent comma requirements
• How do we access the clipboard on mobile devices?
• Shell - argv parameter with SPACE

Updates in the LiveCode open source project

15 pull requests were merged since the last issue.

New LiveCode releases

• LiveCode 8.1.5 RC-2

Notable changes

• Use default visual if RGBA not supported on Linux
• Accept connections in ephemeral port range
• Fixed crash when accessing ImageData
• Bracket completion
• Unable to delete custom property that isn’t selected

Bug of the week

• Bug 19948 - LCB sector path radius changed to diameter in 8.1.5 DP1 and LC 9 DP7

The reporter attached a helpful simple sample stack, and provided a detailed recipe that helped us to test, confirm 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) Improve “hide” and “show” dictionary entries
• (Easy) Improvement in ‘open socket’ dictionary entry
• (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
• livecodealex
• livecodeali
• livecodesam
• montegoulding
• runrevmark

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• 13th of July 2017
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• 19th of October 2017
• 16th of November 2017

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