This Week In LiveCode 93
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Updates from the LiveCode open source community
Interesting discussions
- How can I scrape text from a web page that is generated by javascript?
- 64 Bit iOS Apps
- HTML5 limitations?
- Importing Unicode from MySQL
- Amazon S3 lib for Android and iOS?
- Another Browser Widget Question
- Web vs Native
- template stacks
- HTML5: mixed signals
- controlNames deprecated??
- Password Protected stack on the web
- Doing user testing in a risk free way
- Compiling LiveCode on Sierra
- E.T.
- Hard Drives
- Sneaky email messages
- Parsing (scraping) OpenGraph Tags from html HEAD
- Sluggish on Mobile Device
- CEF Browser - what is wrong with my script
- Wait, the problem, and why it is important to solve
- Build a simple app on Android
- Matrix Multiplication bug(?) and workaround
- Points of Graphic Oval
- Linux openSUSE Leap 42.3, unsupported but WORKS!
Updates in the LiveCode open source project
19 pull requests were merged since the last issue.
New LiveCode releases
Notable changes
- Ensure navigation with arrows works in LC Prefs
- Fix issues with native field widget
- change “Experimental” status to “Beta”: We welcome Heather’s first pull request :)
- Standalone test runner: Another change that will result in stability improvements
- Correct the spelling error of “occured” to “occurred” in various places: Brian Milby continues to fix bugs: 6 bugfixes have been merged so far, and another 4 are to be merged soon:)
- Ensure cloning cards or stacks from the PB works correctly
- InteractiveTutorial: Add load stack from resources
- Save m_rep in unbound widget
Bug of the week
The reporter attached a 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) 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) LC8 Dictionary Copy using cmd+C only works after Run Tool selected
- (Medium) Dictionary auto-searches on first char freezing cursor
- (Medium) Make guide outlines in the Dictionary expand/collapse with repeated clicks
- (Hard) Allow Windows line endings in script-only stacks
- (Hard) Create a LiveCode Community build for Raspberry Pi
Contributors this week
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