This Week In LiveCode 117
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Updates from the LiveCode open source community
Interesting discussions
- Strange behaviour of standalone builder
- Link for the icon offer
- LC-Magick #11
- Inspector - resizable or not?
- iOS sim orientation
- Getting current line number of a table field
- Mysql load dump
- Levure update 0.9.5
- New Weird Display Bug
- Did numberFormat Break?
- LC-Magick #12
- dgFail
- Text Styles: Expanded, condensed
- LiveCode and XCode
- libsodium on LiveCode?
Updates in the LiveCode open source project
16 pull requests were merged since the last issue.
Notable changes
- PI scroller should not intercept Home/End keys if the target is a PI field
- Refresh player when mirroring changes
- Fix specialfolderpath of engine on windows
- Init system correctly on windows server
- Show warning when using map widget on OSX 10.9 and 10.10
- Fix issues with users’ extension guides
- TileCache - Selection Layer
- Handle unset app id and set for user
- Output to module.module_version.lcm when compiling
Bug of the week
The reporter provided useful info, a detailed recipe as well as a helpful sample stack that allowed 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: Mention that in ReplaceText function you might need to escape RegExp metacharacters, if the “replacementString” is the char itself (e.g. “.”)
- (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) Make guide outlines in the Dictionary expand/collapse with repeated clicks
- (Medium) Dictionary: The LiveCode Script Guide cannot be searched
- (Medium) Dragging Out Multiple Files (on Mac) Freezes LiveCode
- (Hard) Create a LiveCode Community build for Raspberry Pi
Contributors this week
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