This Week In LiveCode 182
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Updates from the LiveCode open source community
Interesting discussions
- Visual Studio 2017 to the rescue
- Why does this not work ?
- ANN: CRON - a library for Levure
- Android - Different Builds
- PlayStore and Tablets
- math on widths doesn’t add up
- Is there a way to use custom icons in the navbar widget?
- Move several fields by a mobile scroller to allow to enter text into the lower fields
- Is your HTMLtext no looking right? ( & Debugging Question)
- Copy Files in Standalone settings
Updates in the LiveCode open source project
5 pull requests were merged since the last issue.
Notable changes
- Add support for
Apple Development:certificates - Fix macOS 64 bit installer
- Fix conditional breakpoint evaluation
Bug of the week
The reporter provided a helpful sample stack 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) 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
Other LiveCode News
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