This Week In LiveCode 186

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

• Android 64-bit?
• source of a socket error message
• Downloading apk
• Unicode languages and text selection…
• html5 wait command (workaround)

Updates in the LiveCode open source project

2 pull requests were merged since the last issue.

Bug of the week

• Bug 22248 - currentTimeChanged only sent for the last player added

The reporter provided a detailed and helpful recipe 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:

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

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: 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
• livecodepanos

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.

• New lesson about codesigning an app, creating codesgined DMG and Notarize it for distribution outside of the Mac App Store

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