This Week In LiveCode 120

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

Interesting discussions

• Trace_to_SVG
• Forcing a device update
• Slide puzzle question
• Issues with storage of data in stack
• Standalone compile problem including more than two stack files to the mainstack
• how to copy a card?
• Saving stack locations in multi monitor setups
• Bizarre Number Sort of Files Mac
• Unicode inconsistency
• Callbacks fail
• New Game By Fasasoftware - Apple Toe

Updates in the LiveCode open source project

44 pull requests were merged since the last issue.

Notable changes

• Fix linux fullscreen window manager issues
• Ensure malloc’d pointer is not incremented before free
• Use local frame for interface proxy creation: This fixes a crash when more than 6 Android native fields are present in a card.
• Use PAC file found via WPAD protocol to resolve proxy server settings for url requests Thank you @trevordevore
• Fix print to pdf: A recent regression is now fixed.
• Add a time zone handling library
• Fix Segmented Control perimeter when it has one segment
• Send touch messages when scroller disabled: This fixes a DataGrid2 issue on Android, where you had to swipe twice when a native scroller was present.
• Ensure missing extension produces warning
• Add support for Local Storage to Android browser
• Fix handling of binary URL data in HTML5

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
• (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
• (Hard) Create a LiveCode Community build for Raspberry Pi

Contributors this week

• Trevor DeVore
• livecodeali
• livecodeian
• livecodemiriam
• livecodepanos
• montegoulding

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.

• tsNet documentation
• tsNet and Digest Authentication - some problems or better said: missing knowledge

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