This Week In LiveCode 181

Welcome to This Week in LiveCode! This is a weekly summary of what’s been going on in the LiveCode open source project and community. Want something mentioned? Tweet @LiveCode or send us an e-mail.

Updates from the LiveCode open source community

Interesting discussions

• Black boxes replace images in Mojave
• Line Graph Widget - Plotting time series
• View XML file in Tree View widget - worth the effort?
• Design questions…
• Date and time
• Realtime sound generation in LC
• Duplicate card and object command lc 9.0.4
• Big problems creating standalone
• mouseChunk in a loop
• Could not find a valid identity to use for the selected profile ..

Updates in the LiveCode open source project

18 pull requests were merged since the last issue.

Notable changes

• Implement delete undo for widgets
• Ensure default device theme is used on Android datePicker
• Add this widget and trigger all in <widget> syntax
• Prebuilt: Ensure linux thirdparty libs are prebuilt with position-independent code
• CEF: Update to 74.1.16+ge20b240+chromium-74.0.3729.131

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:

• how to submit a pull request
• how to add a bugfix note to the pull request

Then try one of these:

• (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

Contributors this week

• BerndN
• livecodeali
• livecodeian
• livecodepanos
• montegoulding

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.

• Compatible software?

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