This Week In LiveCode 221
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Updates from the LiveCode open source community
Interesting discussions
- Who else doesn’t want auto-select when opening a card?
- Apps to fight COVID-19
- Building a Board Game
- LC Android deployment working on Windows 10 under ARM64
- Video format for mobile
- Umlauts (again) and arraytojson
- Mobile screen sizes - another naive question
- Livecode and AWS Sql
- WebDAV library for LC community available which does not depend on tsNet
- What is a token
- MP3s
- LC equivalent of php utf8_encode and utf8_decode?
- Getting started with Java bindings
- Linking Xcode and Livecode
- Missing required architecture arm64
- build apps for ios13.3
- External Dev Kit vs LiveCode Builder
- Copying standalone iOS app onto an iPad
- Sending smtp email on android device
Updates in the LiveCode open source project
10 pull requests were merged since the last issue.
Notable changes
- Fix bug preventing JS execution in Android browser
- Add support for front camera in Android mobilePickPhoto
- Implement system appearance support
- Ensure multiple queued requests are handled correctly
- Fix crash when opening and closing modal windows
- Navigation Bar: Add option to highlight none of the icons
Bug of the week
The reporter provided a detailed recipe and a helpful 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
This section brings you other interesting news from across the LiveCode universe over the last week. This section may include non OSS projects.
- ANN: glx2 script editor 4.0
- Another Apple iOS Deadline
- iOS TextToSpeech extension for free
- Demo DropBox Library (LC 9)
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