This Week In LiveCode 247

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

• Strange bug
• Mac standalone install in menu bar
• MP3 ID3 tag writer
• Chromebook apps?
• scrollbars of treeview widget
• Printing To Pdf Linux Rendering
• Keeping soft line break and using clipboard data
• Double Clicking on a Field
• binaryencode question

Updates in the LiveCode open source project

1 pull request was merged since the last issue.

Notable changes

• Fix JNI error calling methods that trigger callbacks

Bug of the week

• Bug 23018 - The command Answer in a resumeStack prevents the mouse click from being finalized

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 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) Make the scrollbars for a treeview widget a TAD wider
• (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

• montegoulding

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