This Week In LiveCode 137

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

News & blog posts

• Help Support LiveCode - Open Source Needs You

Interesting discussions

• Boiling over with excitement…
• doMenu
• Mobile Launch Camera
• Docker
• Transitioning to LiveCode 9…
• The non-appearance of Polygon graphics in LC
• 9.0.1 “Become An Android Developer”
• Sender of send in time
• Browser Widget on Android
• Why you should sanitize input data
• Possible bug with native controls

New LiveCode releases

• LiveCode 9.0.1 RC-1 Get this new release that includes more than 90 bugfixes and performance improvements.

Help needed!

Want to get involved in the LiveCode open source project but don’t know where to start? Try one of these:

• (Easy) Docs: The first example in mobileSetKeyboardType users an invalid parameter
• (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
• (Hard) Case insensitive matchText returns incorrect result

Upcoming events

• LiveCode Global: 12 Months Streamed Live Around the Globe - Running every 2nd month throughout 2018!

Save the dates:

• 19th of July 2018
• 20th of September 2018

• 15th of November 2018

• The next LiveCode Conference is in…

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