This Week In LiveCode 242
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
- DG outcomes on desktop vs mobile
- Line length
- In Praise of TROZ
- Naive XML questions
- iOS Emoji keyboard does not print to PDF?!
- Android Studio - Additional JDK not needed (Solution to Java is none error)
- Is the Scale factor taken into account when saving HTML5 Standalone?
Updates in the LiveCode open source project
5 pull requests were merged since the last issue.
Notable changes
- Ensure the shellcommand defaults to COMSPEC on Windows
- Update the engine to compile with Xcode 12
- Call doProcess in updateKeyboardVisible
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 the behavior of ‘the screenrect’ on iOS if “Display Zoom” is checked
- (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
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.
- How to resolve “unable to locate play service dependency base version 9.4.0”
- Valentina Reports, DB & Server for LiveCode Updated to 10.5.5
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