This Week In LiveCode 267
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Updates from the LiveCode open source community
Interesting discussions
- 3-way slider control
- macOS and the default font in fields
- Memory garbage overrun on windows server
- Lock screen working on Big Sur?
- Applying transparency to only a part of a stack?
Updates in the LiveCode open source project
5 pull requests were merged since the last issue.
Notable changes
- Add support for App Tracking Transparency
- Add support building with Xcode 12.5 / iOS 14.5 SDK
- Fix calculation of player’s native layer rect when stack is resized
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) Extension Builder: Default Script and User Guide are not shown
- (Easy) Docs: Paragraphs out of order in Description for split command
- (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) SVG Icon Property Inspector: add the text version of the iconPresetName to the PI
- (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
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