This Week In LiveCode 240

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

News & blog posts

• October only: Get a Hacktoberfest t-shirt by contributing to LiveCode: Submit 4 pull requests and get a free Hacktoberfest T-shirt!

Interesting discussions

• backKey with DataGrid
• Compress/Decompress Inclustion?
• formattedwidth/height does not work with some fonts
• Select text question
• Xcode, iOS 14 and Livecode
• Big Sur bugs
• Bug: jumping stack windows (when supress messages is off)
• LiveCode server IDE

Updates in the LiveCode open source project

2 pull requests were merged since the last issue.

Notable changes

• Fix high CPU usage when showing modal stack

Bug of the week

• Bug 22928 - Loading audio file in iOS native player randomly causes app to freeze

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) 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

• livecodeian

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