This Week In LiveCode 98
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
- LiveCode docset for Dash
- Phone Number Validation Function
- put after
- IconGrid widget v2.0.2
- Commmunity widgets #47-50
- Testing iOS apps on attached device
- read from file until a line begins with a certain word
- LiveCode 8.2.0 DP-1 Dropping Keystrokes in IDE
- Community widgets #42-52
- openStack problem
- Using the property inspector
Updates in the LiveCode open source project
25 pull requests were merged since the last issue.
New LiveCode releases
Notable changes
- Options menu for some SE prefs
- Dictionary auto-search on first char freezing cursor
- Line continuation formatting
- Build livecode engine with minimised icu data file: This patch will dramatically reduce the size of the LC executable
- Improve dictionary sort
- Add a Mac TextField widget
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) Make guide outlines in the Dictionary expand/collapse with repeated clicks
- (Medium) Dictionary: The LiveCode Script Guide cannot be searched
- (Hard) Create a LiveCode Community build for Raspberry Pi
Contributors this week
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.
- Script Editor Autocomplete Optional?
- Need a MergAV for dummies guide
- New license type
- Converting iOS app build to .ipa file - latest iTunes update stops you doing this
- tsNet - tsNetSmtpSync
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- 5th Oct : SoCal LiveCode Group meetup
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