This Week In LiveCode 138
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Updates from the LiveCode open source community
Interesting discussions
- Property inspector / custom properties - how can i resize the value field
- iOS and video mirroring
- How to create a QR Code Version 14 (73x73modules)
- How to refresh LC IDE dictionary after I changed a api.lcdoc file?
- TextAlign not working in fields
- android heads up
- LiveCode server IDE - the current state of the art?
- line 1 of the volumes
- drawing a Barcode without a Barcode font
- Android, acceleratedRendering and visual effect
- Trying to track down the reason for slow downloads
- Help with Bug #19550: Add support for symlinks to standalone builder
- OAuth2 Library troubleshooting
- adding a Shared (Background) Group after the fact
- Could not compile service support class - revisited
- Unable to build app for testing: apk preparation failed
Bug of the week
The user provided a detailed recipe that allowed us to test and confirm the problem quickly.
Help needed!
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- (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
Contributors this week
Other LiveCode News
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