This Week In LiveCode 202
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
- Y coordinate for a line of text
- Disappearing “column lables” of Datagrid
- Identifying Un-used functions and commands
- Commands on server and lack of examples
- Decoding “quoted-printable” – Help needed – Solved
- Push notification to all user
- Catalina mail recovery stack
- that stupid notch
- A rather elegant Script to export all SubStacks …
- Error loading external stack
Updates in the LiveCode open source project
1 pull request was merged since the last issue.
Notable changes
Bug of the week
The reporter provided a detailed description and a helpful sample stack that allowed us to test and confirm the problem quickly. Moreover, he suggested a solution fixes the problem :)
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:
Note: Any new bug-fixing PRs should be submitted against develop-9.5 branch
Then try one of these:
- (Easy) Dictionary: incorrect description of resizeControl message
- (Easy) Docs: Update the dict entry of the “propertynames”
- (Easy) Docs: Mention that lockLoc property of an object only prevents it from being moved by the mouse when in Edit mode
- (Easy) Docs: specialFolderPath(“resources”) for stacks with empty filename is not documented
- (Medium) Add support for unblocking http requests on Android 9+
- (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
This section brings you other interesting news from across the LiveCode universe over the last week. This section may include non OSS projects.
- unable to locate the play service dependency base version 9.4.0
- New app update: four errors in plist
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