This Week In LiveCode 229

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

• SHELL command works in Terminal but not via SHELL in LC
• Scrolling jitter
• Unicode and languages
• revCopyFolder - execution error in standalone
• Possible Catalina problem…

Updates in the LiveCode open source project

1 pull request was merged since the last issue.

Notable changes

• Turn off auto-suggestion in Android native password fields

Bug of the week

• Bug 22765 - Answer dialog doesn’t go away after being dismissed until entire script executes

The reporter provided 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:

• 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-9.6 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

• livecodepanos

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: PowerDebug 2.2
• ANN: PowerTools 2.0.22
• Script profiler

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