RELEASE LiveCode 6.6.2 RC1

Thu Apr 24 15:19:40 EDT 2014

Yea, I think he missed with the copy and paste... it is most definitely 6.6.2 RC 2 and was released today.

6.6.1 is GM

On Apr 24, 2014, at 3:15 PM, Mike Kerner <MikeKerner at roadrunner.com> wrote:

> subject says 6.6.2, email says 6.6.1
> 
> 
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Stephen MacLean <smaclean at madmansoft.com>wrote:
> 
>> I am unable to launch an iOS app that builds and runs normally in 6.6.1.
>> 
>> It crashes at launch on both the simulator and phone.
>> 
>> I will file a bug report, along with crash report.
>> 
>> Best,
>> 
>> Steve MacLean
>> 
>> On Apr 24, 2014, at 1:22 PM, Benjamin Beaumont <ben at runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Dear List Members.
>>> 
>>> We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 6.6.1 RC1.
>>> 
>>> This is a maintenance release for the 6.6 series and contain 43 bug
>> fixes.
>>> Many of the visual glitches on high resolution screens have been resolved
>>> and a number of other general fixes have been applied.
>>> 
>>> *Release Contents*
>>> 
>>> 43 bug fixes:
>>> 
>>>  - 12239 - Magnification window shows corrupted image.
>>>  - 12237 - Attempt to attach to the launching console on Windows (if
>> any)
>>>  in standalones.
>>>  - 12236 - Dropdown menus are clipped on Windows when text scale > 100%
>>>  - 12235 - Tooltips clipped on Windows when text scaling > 100%
>>>  - 12227 - When Windows screen display is set to 125% popups sometimes
>>>  break
>>>  - 12223 - Windows backdrop doesn\'t cover the full desktop area when
>>>  displayed on a high-dpi screen.
>>>  - 12206 - Buttons of menu type can\'t be inspected if first created
>>>  object
>>>  - 12200 - Some filesystem entries in the root of a volume on Mac report
>>>  as files when they are really folders.
>>>  - 12185 - Standalone engine crashes when -ui specified on Linux.
>>>  - 12183 - Clicking in the scrollbar well doesn\'t work if the click is
>>>  too short.
>>>  - 12182 - \'the pageRanges\' doesn\'t work on fields with more than 64K
>>>  chars.
>>>  - 12175 - Setting the usePixelScaling property doesn\'t update all
>>>  windows on Mac.
>>>  - 12170 - Non-existant command line parameter variables ($) behave
>>>  strangely with split.
>>>  - 12146 - setting tabstops to 2 equal numbers and then turning vGrid on
>>>  hangs LC
>>>  - 12125 - put the executionContexts crashes LiveCode server
>>>  - 12107 - exit causes livecode server to crash
>>>  - 12105 - Livecode server crashed if you call paramCount()
>>>  - 12101 - Graphics missing from imported Hypercard stack
>>>  - 12099 - On awakening Android device from sleep, part of app is
>> blacked
>>>  out
>>>  - 12088 - The script editor doesn\'t scroll horizontally as text is
>>>  entered
>>>  - 12058 - The backdrop on Windows is always black
>>>  - 12044 - Opaque groups do not completely draw their backgrounds when
>>>  acceleratedRendering is enabled
>>>  - 12037 - Slow-down in setting contents of fields on Windows since
>> 6.1.3.
>>>  - 12027 - On Retina Mac\'s scrollbars with small thumbs render smaller
>>>  than they should.
>>>  - 12020 - Caret is too thin on Retina displays.
>>>  - 12010 - Windows engine hangs after multiple stack redraws.
>>>  - 12008 - import screen snapshot on iOS creates image of incorrect
>> size.
>>>  - 12006 - HTTP (HTML) URLs encoded with anything other than a native
>>>  character set are retunred incorrectly
>>>  - 11975 - \"import snapshot from rect ...\" only imports part of the
>>>  screen on Windows
>>>  - 11964 - Spacing is incorrect for Windows scaled text
>>>  - 11933 - effective textColor returns empty value for styled text
>>>  - 11920 - Memory leak in bitmap effects with spread of non-zero radius
>>>  (e.g. spread 100%, radius 1; spread 50%, radius 2).
>>>  - 11904 - Italic characters with underhang are clipped on windows
>>>  - 11884 - Stoked graphics clipped when printed
>>>  - 11860 - uuid and randomBytes functions don\'t work on iOS when
>>>  Encryption support is not included
>>>  - 11708 - Anroid apps only partially drawn after rotating device during
>>>  lock sreen
>>>  - 11690 - Once large scripts start scrolling the script editor, it
>>>  won\'t stop for a long time on Windows.
>>>  - 11689 - ResizeControl is not sent when resizing images
>>>  - 11662 - Round buttons are drawn incorrectly
>>>  - 11603 - Backdrop not displayed on Linux
>>>  - 11370 - Anti-aliasing inconsistent for 1 pixel lines and curves
>>>  - 11072 - magnify and edit image crashes LC
>>>  - 2627 - The machine() function returns \"unknown\" under Mac OSX
>>> 
>>> *Getting this release*
>>> To upgrade to this release please select "check for updates" from the
>> help
>>> menu in LiveCode or download the installers directly at:
>>> http://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/
>>> 
>>> *Reporting Bugs*
>>> If you encounter an issue with this release please submit a bug report to
>>> our quality centre: http://quality.runrev.com/enter_bug.cgi
>>> 
>>> Warm regards,
>>> 
>>> The LiveCode Team
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