This Week In LiveCode 159
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Updates from the LiveCode open source community
Interesting discussions
- Screen readers
- get offset of current selection
- Stumped on Datagrid Problem
- Editing fields in a data grid form
- Circular shift
- Error executing shell echo command through LC
- LiveCode just shows white window on startup: If you have experienced this, please let us know.
Updates in the LiveCode open source project
11 pull requests were merged since the last issue.
Notable changes
- Apply redirect to resource path on macOS
- Ensure adding/deleting/moving items does not change the existing itemNames
- NavBar PI - Fix setting an itemName when navbar has more than 9 items
- Keep Selection when formatting handler
- Ensure one can set the image filename to a relative path
Help needed!
Want to get involved in the LiveCode open source project but don’t know where to start?
First read these posts from Trevor DeVore for detailed instructions on:
Then try one of these:
- (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
- (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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