This Week In LiveCode 134
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Updates from the LiveCode open source community
Interesting discussions
- 8.1.10 Reporting the ScreenSize of a iPhone7: 0,0,375,667
- Changing backgroundColor of a button changes its style?
- Must have flexible row height for Datagrid Table
- ANN: v2.2 of DB Lib
- Sparkle macOS App Updater extension for LC 9 - First Pass
- Align baselines of 2 fields
- Navbar widget limitations
- WordPress REST API’s
- unicode & umlauts
- The results are in
- Data in Custom properties
- IOS 11.4 – Stuck
- Browser Widget Layer on mobile
- Stripping styling from the clipboard…
- How to get the dimensions of an image with LC server?
- Translation Service Deepl.com
- Top Bottom Left Right
Updates in the LiveCode open source project
6 pull requests were merged since the last issue.
Notable changes
- Accelerated rendering issues: This PR fixes 9 long standing bugs, related to acceleratedRendering on Android
- Fix issue loading mac frameworks
- Update android compile sdk to API 26
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- (Easy) Docs: Command line installation needs “-ui” instead of “noui” since LC 9 DP-5
- (Easy) Dictionary: revOpenDatabase(“sqlite”…) doesn’t work on some Linux versions with LC9 - needs gcc4.9
- (Easy) Dictionary: Unlock Screen documentation has typos/errors and needs to reference “lock screen for visual effect”
- (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
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