This Week In LiveCode 163
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Updates from the LiveCode open source community
Interesting discussions
- Checking xml string
- Livecode Server Post
- screenRect and screenLoc weirdness
- How to remove emoji’s from unicode string
- Repeat for each line of a variable or field?
- Navigator 7.1rc1 is available
- LCImageToolBox_v190
- Reorder by drag and drop
Updates in the LiveCode open source project
17 pull requests were merged since the last issue.
Notable changes
- Add sorting / collation support for more locales
- Support for splash images for iPhone XR and XSMAX
- Fix Return key finding only first result in SE Search
- Ensure setting the imagesource to a remote image works
- Fix DataGrid cached control error
- Fixed offset bugs
Bug of the week
The reporter provided a helpful sample stack and a detailed description that allowed us to test and confirm the problem quickly.
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) Datagrid not protected for drag and drop in project view (labels can get inserted into the DGgrp itself)
- (Hard) Create a LiveCode Community build for Raspberry Pi
- (Hard) Case insensitive matchText returns incorrect result
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