This Week In LiveCode 60

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

LiveCode for FM is a new plugin for FileMaker that lets you extend FileMaker using LiveCode. Some of the components of LiveCode for FM, including the OAuth2 authentication library, are being integrated into the LiveCode open source project.

Interesting discussions

Updates in the LiveCode open source project

39 pull requests were merged since the last issue.

New LiveCode releases

LiveCode 8.1.2 rc 2

Notable changes

Re-add support for BMPs as a clipboard image format
Many of this weeks changes fix crashes revealed by the recent object handle improvements, released in LiveCode 8.1.2-rc-1.

Bug of the week

Bug 18867 - Line graph widget doesn’t parse empty datapoints correctly

The line graph widget, introduced in LiveCode 8, has problems when some of the data points have empty values (not zero; points were no datum is available). The reporter provided an excellent recipe to reproduce the bug, which was clearly explained and very reliable, along with screenshots to illustrate the problem.

Help needed!

Want to get involved in the LiveCode open source project but don’t know where to start? Try one of these:

(Easy) Update & complete documentation for the processor
(Easy) Add a default script for scroll bars
(Medium) Make guide outlines in the Dictionary expand/collapse with repeated clicks
(Medium) Reduce whitespace in Dictionary
(Hard) Allow Windows line endings in script-only stacks
(Hard) Create a LiveCode Community build for Raspberry Pi

Contributors this week

Upcoming events

1st December: SoCal LiveCode Group meetup

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