This Week In LiveCode 261
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Updates from the LiveCode open source community
Interesting discussions
- How to get the path to the ‘My Livecode’ or the plugins folder?
- slow responsiveness on windows - what was it like?
- Android and httpS
- TreeView Widget Drag and Drop Support
- Star score graphic generator achievable with inks… or…?
- Behaviors and scripts and a new handler structure…
- autohilite FUBAR?
- Polygons
- Lock/Unlock Screen of another stack
- Find broken behaviours
- Opening Distributed Standalones in OS Big Sur
Updates in the LiveCode open source project
4 pull requests were merged since the last issue.
Notable changes
- Fix unresponsiveness of engine when scrolling on Big Sur
- Fix copying data from clipboard via IStream objects on Windows
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: Paragraphs out of order in Description for split command
- (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) Support for Drag and Drop in TreeView Widget
- (Medium) Make the scrollbars for a treeview widget a TAD wider
- (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
Useful references
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Other LiveCode News
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