This Week In LiveCode 141
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Updates from the LiveCode open source community
Interesting discussions
- LC Builder and 3rd Part DLLs under Windows
- Windows: “not responding”
- HTML to text in field
- Android and https
- Android, local PDF and the Browser Widget
- Re: valueDiff for arrays
- LCB Performance
- Array converted to text in IDE…
- Intersect outputs different result in desktop and LC server
- A few solutions to problems I had
- searching lists.runrev.com
- Regaining IDE Efficiency: Property Inspector
- stackfiles
- Tree View / Custom Properties PI
- Writing to SMB Share?
- Repeat for each element failing
- Navigator v 6 is out
- Need a little help with image resizing
- Android compass question
- Resetting waitDepth
- Text rendering of Unicode text in LC
- How to filter a list with a variable anywhere in a line
- LC 9 and Memory
- Using stackoverflow.com
- stack rect with decorations?
- My Button Bar
- ANN: Calendar Plugin
- Multi Threadedness?
Updates in the LiveCode open source project
4 pull requests were merged since the last issue.
Notable changes
- Recursively sign frameworks in iOS apps
- Include folders in iOS extension code folders
- Update ParseStringAsNumber dictionary
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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