This Week In LiveCode 89
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Updates from the LiveCode open source community
News & blog posts
Interesting discussions
- Levure wiki / documentation
- Determining left or right movement in a mouseMove handler
- 8.1.4 Export snapshot
- Obtaining the “active” Desktop/Monitor under OSX?
- Momentum Scrolling Script
- Shell - argv limits
- How to get the number of lines of a fld referenced by long ID in a variable
- Table Fields “and all”
- Printing a Widget Browser
- Google Static Maps Problem
- Shell - c Full Example
- Sorting Algorithms
- Verbosity and Lines of code
- Is there Digital Clock Component out there?
- PrintPaperRectangle
- Capturing screen into image
- Advice on copying and pasting in mobile
- Exporting coloured text to HTML and RTF from 8.1.4
- Mobile Check Bandwidth Function
Updates in the LiveCode open source project
30 pull requests were merged since the last issue.
Notable changes
- Fixed error in S/B when adding a stack file that has substacks
- Added svg icon for android native button
- Fixed crash on invalid object in event queue
- Tutorial: Allow instruction window to be moved
- Always create a window mask on Mac
- Fixed crash with invalid MCmousestackptr
- Expose clipsToRect property in property inspector
Bug of the week
- Bug 19969 - Geometry Manager problem when re-selecting ‘Left object’
- Bug 19972 - Setting playRate to negative has no effect when player at end of movie
In both reports the reporter attached a helpful simple 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) Improvement in ‘open socket’ dictionary entry
- (Easy) outputTextEncoding - parameter description format mixed up
- (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
Other LiveCode News
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