This Week In LiveCode 214
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Updates from the LiveCode open source community
Interesting discussions
- Does any one know what Player “intervals” actually are?
- Diagnosing a crasher (was Re: Quality, reputation, and improving both)
- text copied form LC generated PDF, WTF?
- player bug
- Mobile “shake” ??
- ChangeImage Widget
- Browser Widget different actions on Mac/ios and Windows
- Text-to-speech TTS for macOS 10.6+
- Geometry Manager and iOS
- Sub stacks not saving data in standalones on macOS 10.15
Updates in the LiveCode open source project
2 pull requests were merged since the last issue.
Notable changes
Bug of the week
The reporter provided a detailed recipe and a helpful simple sample stack 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:
Note: Any new bug-fixing PRs should be submitted against develop branch
Then try one of these:
- (Easy) Dictionary: more examples for IF entry in Dictionary
- (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
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