This Week In LiveCode 218
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Updates from the LiveCode open source community
Interesting discussions
- ODBC Connections
- Any electronic document formats offering interactivity?
- Tab In Field
- Guessing the encoding of a test file…
- Android Studio 3.6 breaks LC Android deployment?
- IMAP Search skipping results
- Getting HTML5 going
- Runtime Error on. JavaScript Handler in Browser
Updates in the LiveCode open source project
3 pull requests were merged since the last issue.
New LiveCode releases
Notable changes
- Correctly translate popup location to global location
- Add Objective-C block support
- Fix multi-codepoint character parsing in JSONImport()
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
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