This Week In LiveCode 105
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
- LiveCode Global 2018: Join our live 2018 Conference
Interesting discussions
- Strange permissions issues calling ‘shell’ in Windows
- Go card “xyz”
- JSON import error
- Link to iOS device settings
- results of SPLIT when keys not unique
- Device implementation problems
- The coming of SVG
- Markdown ultra-lite
Updates in the LiveCode open source project
25 pull requests were merged since the last issue.
New LiveCode releases
Notable changes
- Fix crash when using multiple players
- Xcode 9.1 support
- Fix indention for uncommon If forms
- PI/Geometry: Limit Object not selected correctly
- Ensure Image/Object Library places objects only on user’s stack
- Include extensions’ resources folder in standalones
- PI/Geometry Manager ‘Left object’ alignment issue
- Dictionary: Display associations by display name
- Fix __MCStringCheck function
- Fix: The lock messages button on the toolbar can lock up the entire IDE
- Fix: Segmented control widget highlights off
- Lots of fixes (regarding invalid links, malformed text) in various dictionary entries in LiveCode 8.2.x. Thanks @livecodesam :)
Bug of the week
The reporter attached a simple and helpful sample stack, and provided useful info and a detailed recipe that helped us to test and confirm the problem quickly. Moreover, he submitted a PR that fixed the issue :)
Help needed!
Want to get involved in the LiveCode open source project but don’t know where to start? Try one of these:
- (Easy) Dictionary: Mention that iPhone X does not support “portrait upside down” orientation
- (Easy) Improvement in ‘open socket’ dictionary entry
- (Easy) MouseEnter / MouseLeave infinite Loop trap - documentation enhancement
- (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.
Upcoming events
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