This Week In LiveCode 234
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Updates from the LiveCode open source community
Interesting discussions
- Tab Buttons Mac vs. Win
- LiveCode Server revOpenDatabase help needed
- Functions running in IDE, but not running in standalone
- breakpoint causes 3 second delay then exit to top
- Styled text on mobile
- text to speech android
- Browser widget scrolling
- Wrapping Text
- Using OAuth2 with Microsoft API services
- ANN: FieldGroup - a simple rich text editor field
- Is “import snapshot” without parameters broken?
- Android target needs api-29 as of august 2020
- Scrolling in a widget
Updates in the LiveCode open source project
6 pull requests were merged since the last issue.
Notable changes
- Enable text editing options in CEF context menu
- Ensure the captured image is not rotated when saved
- emscripten: Use a single hidden input field for all LC windows
- Have revPrintText keep modal defaultStack
Bug of the week
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:
Note: Any new bug-fixing PRs should be submitted against develop-9.6 branch
Then try one of these:
- (Easy) Docs: Mention that matchText/matchChunk/replaceText all operate as if form-sensitive were true
- (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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