This Week In LiveCode 172
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Updates from the LiveCode open source community
Interesting discussions
- Statistics-Distributions_v105
- get an overview of all scripts (e.g total lines of all scripts) of a stack
- LiveCode Localization?
- Relayering Madness
- Android and attachments
- Tree view widget for mobile use
- Remain on First Card Whilst Sending Messages to Second Card
- Who has experience with mp4 videos on windows?
- New Linux Player
Updates in the LiveCode open source project
5 pull requests were merged since the last issue.
New LiveCode releases
Notable changes
- Removed non-existent behavior of a template group of PI stacks
- Ensure visual effect “scroll” does honor rect
Bugs of the week
The reporter provided a very helpful sample stack and a detailed description that allowed us to test and confirm the problems quickly. Moreover, he posted a suggested fix that addresses the problem. Much appreciated :)
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 drawingSvgCompileFile() cannot read from resources folder on Android
- (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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