This Week In LiveCode 144
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Updates from the LiveCode open source community
News & blog posts
Interesting discussions
- RE: Best way to store videos
- textHeight changing again when copying fields from one stack to another
- Datagrid substack question
- ImageStatistics_v100
- LiveCode 1.6.1 docset now available
- XML to File
- What do we know about LC 10?
- Tree View Values
- How to get word offset all instances of a string in a chunk of text?
- am I regexing by mistake?
- Mobile Rotation Redux
- On Performance of Array Access
- Deleting a char inside a textField via code
- Android Audio Recorder Woes
- Missing function selectedWords/selectedTrueWords
- Trouble with iOS Logos/No Appearing on Home Screen
- Searching for a word when it’s more than one word
- Chunked Off - replace with empty
- startUp messaging hierarchy
- ImageHandles_v105
- Up to date installation guide for LiveCode community server?
- ANN: LC Documentation Cache Cleaner
- SVGHandles89_v100
Updates in the LiveCode open source project
10 pull requests were merged since the last issue.
Notable changes
- Move dragboard rebind to mousedown
- Include iPadPro splash image in plist file
- Ensure pageRanges and pageHeights return correct results
- Document “number of elements of tArray”
- Extensions: Add support for snippets and sample stacks
Bug of the week
The user provided a helpful stack and a detailed recipe that allowed us to test, confirm and fix the problem quickly.
Help needed!
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- (Easy) Documentation: libraryStack summary missing ‘startUsing’ at end of sentence
- (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
- (Medium) Relayer control crashes livecode
- (Hard) Create a LiveCode Community build for Raspberry Pi
- (Hard) Case insensitive matchText returns incorrect result
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