This Week In LiveCode 269
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Updates from the LiveCode open source community
Interesting discussions
- Display Youtube video
- Collaborative help request for oAuth2 access to DocuSign
- Levure Dataview drag-reordering
- Message Sent when Closing Stack
- building standalone FAILS with German Umlaute in app name
- What happened to mobilePickDate??
- codesigning FAILS with Umlaute
- Mobile Scroller
- Open a folder on the desktop from a LiveCode app
Updates in the LiveCode open source project
14 pull requests were merged since the last issue.
Notable changes
- Add name of SVG Icon to Properties Inspector
- Show names in SVG Icon Picker in Properties Inspector
- Fix $_POST_RAW on Windows Server
- Add new function iphoneDeviceModel()
Bug of the week
The reporter provided a helpful sample stack and a detailed recipe 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:
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 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
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