RELEASE LiveCode 6.1.1 RC5

Benjamin Beaumont ben at runrev.com
Fri Sep 6 09:01:29 EDT 2013


Dear List Members

LiveCode 6.1.1-rc-5 is now available.

We expect this the be the last release candidate in the current maintenance
cycle. Details of the contents of this release can be found below.

*WARNING:* Bug 11127 which was fixed in this released involved altering
code in the stack loading and saving module. We recommend backing up your
stacks before testing RC5. We are confident we were able to apply the fix
without altering the behaviour, but with this being a sensitive part of the
LiveCode engine we would encourage all users to test the loading and saving
of their apps, feeding back if any issues are encountered.

*Upgrading*
You can update LiveCode through the auto-updating within the product help
menu or by downloading the installers directly here:

http://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/6_1_1/

*Release Contents*
This release contains the following changes:
(Emboldened bugs were fixed for RC5)

Access to the current behavior object. (experimental)
Added support for reading RLE compressed BMP images
Crash setting location of image with filename set to empty
Find Malfunction in Script Editor for both >*/ and double-quote (")
App store submission warns about lack of push notification entitlement even
for apps not using push notifications.
57 bug fixes:
*11152 - Including iOS externals in Android projects (and vice versa)
causes standalones to fail.*
*11144 - Hang when trying to get chunk of formattedText of a field beyond
the first (formatted) line.*
*11131 - Moving a Layer between two groups in Project Browser*
*11127 - Stackfile can get corrupted when setting the colors/patterns of an
image object which is either empty, or contains RLE compressed data.*
*11119 - Project Browser denies existence of existing controls! *
*11110 - Menu Builder Disable Item problem. Unicode characters were not
being handled correctly when disabling/enabling menu items.*
*10796 - HTTP "get URL" omits port number from HOST header *
*10669 - revUniqueID - the revUniqueID of the child controls of a group do
not get updated when the group is cloned or duplicated.*
*10108 - Thumb and scrollbar appear over top of DataGrid*
11129 - Crash when fetching the encoding or the flaggedRanges property from
the templateField.
11126 - Intermittant crashes whilst using the project browser.
11122 - The script editor erroneously starts a comment in $#.
11108 - Crash in some circumstances when setting the hidden of a paragraph
to false.
11105 - Plugin settings refers to Revolution. This has been updated to
refer to LiveCode.
11104 - Crash when getting childControlIds/Names of group with no controls
11103 - Push notifications not handled when app is paused
10826 - Menu Text > Font > Size > Other... does nothing. Now asks the user
to input a text size.
10689 - 'the selectedChunk' returns a field reference if the field is
embedded in a combo-box.
10665 - Save this stack as syntax broken in the message box
10655 - Dragging a file over a script without dropping causes the caret to
continue to move in field after drag has ended.
10654 - Cells in field table mode can become misaligned if there is a
change in style just after a tab.
10616 - Different padding between lines causes hgrid to render incorrectly.
10445 - Sort international does not work on Android
11089 - The 'shell()' function on server does not perform end-of-line
conversion.
11084 - Conditional messages such as resizeControl are not searched for in
ancestor behaviors.
11081 - Dropper dool does not work on OSX
11080 - Android input field fontSize setting value in incorrect units
11073 - Transparency lost when saving RLE encoded images with LiveCode
11064 - LiveCode IDE breaks when opening a particular PDF file - uncaught
exception fetching the properties of a DataGrid
11044 - Divide by zero when calculating scrollbar thumbposition
11036 - IDE no longer exposes an AppleScript dictionary.
11025 - The PDF Printing external is not being included in Windows
Standalones.
11020 - Setting or getting custom properties from global scope crashes
server.
11017 - Handlers in library stacks and chained behaviors are cannot be
executed from the message box.
10972 - Text does not paste from PDFs loaded into Adobe Reader 9 on Mac.
10957 - The 'flaggedRanges' property can sometimes report the wrong values
in a field containing mixed unicode and non-unicode text.
10932 - Setting the flaggedRanges of a field containing Unicode text can be
very slow.
10925 - Using add/subtract/multiply/divide on a variable that has not been
declared causes subexpressions to be evaluated twice.
10902 - Selecting regular polygon graphic fails to update title of Property
Inspector, This was due to an error in the property list for regular
polygons which prevented the Property Inpsector updating correctly.
10893 - Copying HTML from clipboard into a text field generates
misformatted output
10883 - Nested groups can return True in sharedBehavior getter
10868 - Mobile stack saved as iOS retains iOS settings on Windows. As the
option is disabled and cannot be unchecked on Windows the standalone
builder will disregard this choice on Windows. Selecting another platform
to build for will still automatically unselect iOS.
10865 - Setting secureMode to true prevents an app from handling 'Quit' and
'Preferences' items from the system menu on Mac.
10840 - When rendering the caret against transparency, use black rather
than XORing (otherwise it vanishes).
10800 - Get URL on mobile can fail if URL contains whitespace chars
10774 - LiveCode engine crashes in filter in repeat loop
10671 - Combining Drag & Drop with "grab me" causes LC IDE to crash
11061 - Engine crash getting extents of numeric array with 8-digit key
11054 - Inconsistent Ask/Answer fonts/text.
11043 - The Project Browser does not update when a group is ungrouped.
11037 - Crash setting a behavior to an object that would cause a loop in
the hierarchy.
11024 - Cannot drag cards in the Project Browser.
11023 - About menu moved on mac to help menu.
11018 - LiveCode crashes opening rotated image with invalid filename
11011 - app identifier field in standalone applications settings on iOS and
Android allows return characters.
10971 - Strange instabilities in LiveCode IDE with certain stacks.
9836 - Set cursor to none does not work

Warm regards,

The LiveCode Team



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