This Week In LiveCode 156
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Updates from the LiveCode open source community
Interesting discussions
- Selecting text in non-focused field
- iOS sharing extension
- Datagrids and LC 9.0.2 rc1
- Max number of columns in a datagrid?
- Mac Standalone/Pkg Weirdness
- Browser widget and PDFs
- LiveCode and Websockets
- LiveCode Server syntax to call function in CGI folder
- How do I check to see if an environment variable exists?
- How to get physical coordinates of cursor in field
- Browser Widget Problem in Android
- How to extract an entire element from an HTML file?
- Quit οn Android
Updates in the LiveCode open source project
7 pull requests were merged since the last issue.
New LiveCode releases
Notable changes
Bug of the week
The reporter provided a detailed recipe as well as a helpful simple sample stack that allowed us to test and confirm the problem quickly.
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- (Easy) Docs: Mention that mobile player controller does not show if video file is missing or invalid
- (Easy) Docs: Describe the behavior of stack title/label property
- (Easy) Dictionary entry of the menu keyword is incorrectly formatted
- (Easy) Docs say fullclipboarddata[“image”] can be gif, png, or jpeg but BMP data can be present on Windows
- (Easy) Docs: Livecode dictionary entry for videoClip
- (Easy) Docs: specialFolderPath(“resources”) for stacks with empty filename is not documented
- (Easy) Docs: Datagrid Deleteline and Deletelines commands are no longer synonymous in DG2
- (Easy) Docs: Command line installation needs “-ui” instead of “noui” since LC 9 DP-5
- (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
- (Medium) set scaledwidth of SVG icon crashes LC
- (Hard) Create a LiveCode Community build for Raspberry Pi
- (Hard) Case insensitive matchText returns incorrect result
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