This Week In LiveCode 140
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Updates from the LiveCode open source community
Interesting discussions
- Too fundamental to be a bug, so what’s wrong?
- sending javascript to browser widget?
- datagrid form question
- acceleratedRendering
- $_POST[] variable?
- Getting Started with DataGrid
- New Apple iPad & Chipset
- Using the $_POST global in LiveCode server
- Re: A poor man’s app updater
- CEF browser question
- put URL oddity
- valueDiff for arrays?
- Drag Drop State of Affairs
- Move command on iOS
- DataGrid image display woes
- LCB - Text entry/edit in a widget
- datagrid scrolling question
- Re: Getting Started with DataGrid and another datagrid form
- Start using stack - Loading stack libraries
- FATAL EXCEPTION:android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException
Updates in the LiveCode open source project
1 pull request was merged since the last issue.
Notable changes
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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
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