This Week In LiveCode 180
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Updates from the LiveCode open source community
Interesting discussions
- slow slower slowest scroll on Android
- Ken Burns Effects - acceleratedRendering
- FFI & VLC Player
- property that shows a group is being edited?
- How to install a dependency
- radiobuttons, checkboxes and icongravity
- A question about openCard
Updates in the LiveCode open source project
15 pull requests were merged since the last issue.
Notable changes
- Fix use after release of dashes struct lengths field
- Fix extension release note edition section
- refresh windows after backdrop is created
- Add missing layerMode to inspector
- Fix crash when putting before/after an invalid container
- Ensure extensionOrderByDependency does not return builtins
- Ensure files open for driver have stdio buffering turned off
- Serial I/O: Expand the baudrates on Linux and Mac
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- (Easy) Docs: the machine on windows can now return x86_64
- (Easy) IDE: Cancel standalone pop up wrong message
- (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) IDE: when command exceeds width of message box, backspacing causes ghost characters
- (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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