This Week In LiveCode 119
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Updates from the LiveCode open source community
News & blog posts
Interesting discussions
- IDE Cursor icon often hangs on windows
- Background color in an ‘answer’ dialog?
- Size of screen diagonal?
- Another server question (mixing node.js and LC)
- building deb packages
- Internet checking?
- “Open in New Navigator” is back
- A suggestion for an in-memory database, following up on Richard’s experiment
- How to include files in an iOS-App?
- Font name weirdness
- LC server and fonts
- Color a graphic on a datagrid
- Reverse ‘pixelcoloring’ and total amount of colors
- Hyphenator
Updates in the LiveCode open source project
23 pull requests were merged since the last issue.
Notable changes
- Native HTML5 Button Widget
- Use selected font in android field and button widgets
- Fix library mapping for installed extensions
- Ensure nested groups’ scripts can be searched
- Fix installing extensions from local .lce files
- Remove -S parameter trailing slash in aapt call: Fixes the problem of using a Map Widget on Android when building from Windows.
- Tree view doesn’t allow comma in keys
- Fix rotated text rendering on Linux
- Fix font rendering appearance in HTML5
- Ensure malloc’d pointer is not incremented before free: Fixes a long standing crash when calling revDataFromQuery with ODBC databases.
Bug of the week
The reporter provided useful info, a detailed recipe as well as a helpful sample stack that allowed us to test, confirm and fix the problem quickly.
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
- (Medium) Add info on manipulating field contents to the User Guide
- (Medium) Applescript “do script” missing from standalone
- (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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