This Week In LiveCode 136
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Updates from the LiveCode open source community
Interesting discussions
- When I assume …
- Deploying to Android from Linux
- Future support for Serial Coms
- WebDocMaker / Online Dictionary
- Capture Keystrokes & MouseMovements without being in focus?
- odbc “information type out of range”
- LiveCode 6.6.3 crashing and saving only part of a stack file
- What are possible reasons for memory consumption going up on stack that isn’t doing much?
- Standalone in IDE Test Works; But Not From SA
- ScreenRect
- Unable to install LC 9 on Ubuntu 18.04
Updates in the LiveCode open source project
7 pull requests were merged since the last issue.
Notable changes
- Fix crash in Mac player when changing filename repeatedly in a loop
- Do not split up .framework folders between MacOS and Resources/_MacOS…
- Fix crash on resume in commercial android engine
- Add stereo balance & panning properties to mac player
- Fix pattern to filter android externals
- Improve appearance of Motif theme disabled button text / icons
Bug of the week
The user 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!
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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
Contributors this week
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