This Week In LiveCode 173
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Updates from the LiveCode open source community
Interesting discussions
- LC 9 and Externals
- BACKUPS !!!
- Localisation - Internationalization Package
- A Question about Ask File
- Browser widget and downloading of files
- ANN: Script Editor Refactoring Support
- ignore close button?
- Find offset of first and last char of Word x in a field
Updates in the LiveCode open source project
5 pull requests were merged since the last issue.
New LiveCode releases
Notable changes
- Reduce time taken to compute minimum required file version for stack: This fixes a regression, where in some edge cases with really huge stacks involved, saving could take up to 13 minutes. With this patch, the time needed to save the stack drops to just 2 minutes.
- Prevent unnecessary disk writes of revPreferences stack: This should improve performance on Windows.
Bugs of the week
The reporter provided a helpful sample stack and a detailed description that allowed us to test, confirm and fix the problem quickly.
Help needed!
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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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