This Week In LiveCode 193
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Updates from the LiveCode open source community
Interesting discussions
- Saving In Script Only Format Message - Really Needed
- Using LiveCode & AppleScript to make mouse selection in another Mac application
- Catalina - the end of ad hoc & in-house development?
- OSX File Extension
- livecode in terminal ; path in linux as alternative to bash?
- Weird behavior for modal stacks and answer dialogs
- Browser Widget LC button to fill and submit form
- changing the manifest
Bug of the week
The reporter provided 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: Update the dict entry of the “propertynames”
- (Easy) Docs: ControlAtScreenLoc incorrect entry
- (Easy) Docs: Improve dateItems dictionary entry
- (Easy) Docs: ask and answer file of type docs incorrect
- (Easy) Docs: Mention that lockLoc property of an object only prevents it from being moved by the mouse when in Edit mode
- (Easy) Docs: Mention that values in accelerationChanged differ between iOS and Android
- (Easy) Docs: Mention that urlProgress is not available on mobile if libUrl/tsNet is included in the standalone
- (Easy) Docs: Mention that drawingSvgCompileFile() cannot read from resources folder on Android
- (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
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.
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