This Week In LiveCode 112
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Updates from the LiveCode open source community
News & blog posts
Interesting discussions
- Interprocess Communication (IPC) under OSX
- Analyzing Crashes on iOS Apps
- Custom Property
- Datagrid Column Click
- Could not encode class bundle
- Dash docset now v1.4, and Make docset updated to v2.3
- Using open process instead of shell
- SivaSiva App on Google Play
- Optimizing for small Android devices
- Voice Comparison in LiveCode?
- screenloc not actually centered after changing scalefactor
- DG2: How much is mobile-only?
- C-Strings and LCB
- hhTextEdit-Basic 1.0.2
- LC Server - MySQL - update about 2000 rows/records of a table
- Dissolve/Transitions Very Costly
- delete the customproperty (of a card)
- lineHeight different Mac vs. Windows
- Go in Window (not working) Go in A window “working”
- Uninstaller question
- Free SVG icons
- zip folder of arbitrary size
- Two new videos about using Navigator with LiveCode
- Mac 64 bit?
- How to tell if it’s a datagrid
- Cancel browser widget navigation?
- Function for returning a list of objects on a card
- SQL Insert Syntax
- HHTextEditFull
- iOS Profile Menu
- text encoding problem Mac to iOS?
- Play WAV audio clips in iOS
- Local Image Paths in HTML for Browser Widget Fails
- Object layers
- Problem pasting from Livecode to Mac Mail
- Custom properties of IDE palettes?
- Do widgets support introspection?
- Externally reffed-off
- TextEditWidget-Basic v0.9.9
- LC Global schedule is online
- Identifying empty lines of text
- Android build executable on test device fails
- Anyone else got two-monitor issues with LC9 on Mac?
- Streaming video..
- Announcement: SVG Icon Tool
Updates in the LiveCode open source project
59 pull requests were merged since the last issue.
New LiveCode releases
Notable changes
- Add iconGravity to PI
- Import SVG from file menu
- cornerRadius not appearing in PI
- Toast: Add example stack
- DataGrid 2: Fix drags to cooperate with the mobile scroller
- Update CEF: This also fixed the problem of the Browser widget not working on Linux in LC 9.x :)
- Add support for accessing system error information
- Line Ending Conversion Correction
- 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.
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: Improve documentation for launch URL & specialFolderPath for Android
- (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
- Brian Milby
- Charles Warwick
- James Hale
- Peter TB Brett
- livecodealex
- livecodeali
- livecodemichael
- 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.
- Remote Debugging on iOS
- submitting to apple store and google store … how much of that process can be automated?
- Creating .ipa now that iTunes has deprecated apps
- iTunes Connect claims iOS app wasn’t built with the iOS 11 SDK
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