This Week In LiveCode 191

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

• HTML5 Focus-Move-Resize v_100
• Scaling Imported Images
• This Web URL Stopped Working in LiveCode all versions. HELP!
• Multicolored card redraw chaos
• DatGrid2 Form view slowdown
• Unicode is not “everywhere”…
• mobilePickPhoto and Galaxy Note 8
• days between

Updates in the LiveCode open source project

1 pull request was merged since the last issue.

Notable changes

• Sync auto complete field when msg box is scrolled horizontally

Bug of the week

• Bug 22332 - export snapshot as Gif corrupted image

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:

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

Then try one of these:

• (Easy) Docs: Update urlEncode dictionary entry to mention encoding non-ASCII characters
• (Easy) Docs: Update urlDecode dictionary entry to mention decoding non-ASCII characters
• (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) 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

Upcoming events

• SoCal LiveCode Group Meeting: Sept 5, Pasadena

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