This Week In LiveCode 97
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
- Deploying to Android (Amazon Fire 7)
- customPropertyless
- Selections in Text Editor Revisited
- I just posted an Augmented Earth sample stack on LiveCode share
- DataGrid in group with backgroundbehavior?
- Windows standalone seems double the file size in every version past 8.14
- Vector graphics, again
- replace and unicode?
- private command gotcha
- script/engine broken when moved to 64bit server at JaguarPC
- Getting saucy
- Android Audio Playback & Recording
- Rotate text 90 degrees?
Updates in the LiveCode open source project
44 pull requests were merged since the last issue.
New LiveCode releases
Notable changes
- Fix infinite loop
- Backport spinner widget
- Ensure the IDE uses valid DB connections
- Save script selection when updated
- Mac folder dialog missing “add folder” button: A 8.1.7-rc-1 regression spotted and fixed by @Brian Milby.
- Add natural int and float types
- Add aggregate support to LCB
- Fetch key codes of modifier keys in keysDown
- Fix crash when using file dialogs from browser widget
- Add thread affinity for iOS
Bug of the week
The reporter attached a simple and 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
- (Easy) Info missing from mobileGetContactData entry
- (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) Create a LiveCode Community build for Raspberry Pi
Contributors this week
- Brian Milby
- macMikey
- Martin Koob
- livecodeali
- livecodeian
- livecodepanos
- livecodesam
- 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.
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