This Week In LiveCode 175
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Updates from the LiveCode open source community
Interesting discussions
- Browser layering
- Hit Box for widgets
- MouseMove less responsive in 9.0.4
- LC Server on OSX Mojave - Local host & sites
- Browser selections
- Saving a tab formatted field to a file and retaining its formatting
- LC Server permissions
- Panel/Form Widget
- setting file created date in livecode from script
- button ICON
- Open Printing to PDF
Updates in the LiveCode open source project
66 pull requests were merged since the last issue.
Notable changes
- More than 30 memory leaks in various areas have been identified and fixed: Special thanks to @runrevmark
- Update the iconpicker to allow filtering
- Make manual height in PI consistent
- Update TreeView to ignore mouseUp when row has changed
- Fix MCWidget::hittest for invisible/disabled widgets
- Fix Autocomplete IF-structs
- Project browser fix display errors for missing behaviors, add alert
- TreeView Widget: Get/Set Fold State
Bug of the week
The reporter provided a helpful sample stack, a screenshot 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 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
Contributors this week
- Andrew Bell
- BerndN
- Brian Milby
- Charles Warwick
- livecodeali
- livecodeian
- livecodepanos
- livecodesam
- montegoulding
- runrevelanor
- runrevmark
Other LiveCode News
This section brings you other interesting news from across the LiveCode universe over the last week. This section may include non OSS projects.
- Notarizing applications for macOS
- Upcoming MacOS 14.5 with software “notarization” requirements
- Encrypted standalones
Upcoming events
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