This Week In LiveCode 195
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Updates from the LiveCode open source community
Interesting discussions
- Sorting strangeness
- Guess encoding for text file…
- Export Snapshot
- Print to PDF on Android?
- No object selected
- Inter-app communication to LiveCode?
- Access Resource Files
- DataView Paginated Scroll
- Android architectures
- HTML5: MultiWindows and GoStackURL v155
- ShowAll on Android 10
Updates in the LiveCode open source project
9 pull requests were merged since the last issue.
Notable changes
- Add docs note about accelerometer differences
- Describe potential use of out-of-range values in dateItems
- Add support for building with Xcode 11 / iOS 13.0 SDK
Bug of the week
The reporter provided a detailed description and sample stack that allowed us to test and confirm the problem quickly. Moreover, he suggested a fix and submitted a pull request.
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
Contributors this week
Other LiveCode News
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