This Week In LiveCode 188
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Updates from the LiveCode open source community
Interesting discussions
- darzTimer
- Launching a cli server as background process in OSX
- Challenge: who can background this shell command?
- BLOB Storage Errors
- Buttons and DragDrop
- increasing column width of DG keeps running
- Save Standalone Settings Externally
- Making “read from file” less blocky.
Updates in the LiveCode open source project
4 pull requests were merged since the last issue.
New LiveCode releases
Notable changes
- Ensure the S/B includes database drivers of the correct arch
- Fix S/B error on Windows if Android Barcode widget is included
Bug of the week
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:
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
- (Hard) scrollerDidScroll returns the wrong vScroll value in iPhone X
Contributors this week
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.
- signature widget
- Transparent layer between pdf widget and field?
- ANN: PowerDebug 2.1.5
- Updated Lesson and new Notarization Helper Stack
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