This Week In LiveCode 208

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

• Start using font
• Parent Group of the Target
• Changing extention on script only stack
• Mad Pink’s Ultra Deluxe Control Panel Uber-Widget
• Livecode 9.5, BrowserWidget, Community Edition
• Littel Arrows
• Focus on customproperty inspector
• shell() and pdftotext
• Scripting puzzle / challenge
• SQL(ite) question
• Admob possible with LCB ?
• Cannot add script only stack in Standalone Applications Settings
• LiveCode now at 36 on tiobe index

Updates in the LiveCode open source project

1 pull request was merged since the last issue.

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

Note: Any new bug-fixing PRs should be submitted against develop 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

• livecodepanos

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