This Week In LiveCode 118
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Updates from the LiveCode open source community
Interesting discussions
- Navigator Update
- position of text-curson within field
- Sub-to-srt updated
- LiveCode and iOS Simulator Set Up
- AcceleratedRendering - when to turn off
- Features and shortcomings of html5
- Password Checker
- LiveCode back on TIOBE
- Quit Command corrupts standalone (stack called by standalone splash)
- playing a video in Win7?
- another mac to Windows gotcha
- High Sierra, LC & Xcode
- send “keyUp” / “rawKeyUp”?
- Question about the result
- hhMockup
Updates in the LiveCode open source project
20 pull requests were merged since the last issue.
Notable changes
- MyPixelScale - Implement my pixel scale expression
- Ensure mobileSoundOnChannel returns correct value
- Return Typeface object from MCCanvasFontGetHandle on Android: Needed for a cross-platform button widget.
- Allow per-extension standalone settings to be required
- Enable cmd+c in dictionary enhanced Thanks @BerndN
- WidgetTouch - Add support for touch events in widgets
Help needed!
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- (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
Other LiveCode News
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