This Week In LiveCode 225
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Updates from the LiveCode open source community
Interesting discussions
- HTML Platform
- I need some DataGrid performance help
- on-rev server upgrade-related problems
- Recommended (simple) Linux distro for Livecode server home dev/test?
- Small and strange problem
- Externals are not loaded
- mergGoogle source OSS’d
- How to delete old provisioning files in the IOS Setting Menu
- LC 9.6 DP4 not working on iOS 10.3.3 ipad
- Application is “damaged” (9.6.0 DP 4)
Updates in the LiveCode open source project
4 pull requests were merged since the last issue.
New LiveCode releases
Notable changes
- Perform ad-hoc codesign of macOS standalones
- Don’t fail opening socket if can’t set SO_REUSEPORT option
- Provide means to create function ptr with abi
Bug of the week
The reporter provided a detailed recipe 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”
- (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
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