RELEASE LiveCode 6.6 DP1

[Michael Gruenthal]

Bug 11814

This bug is caused by setting acceleratedRendering to true

On 2/14/14, 5:06 PM, "Michael Gruenthal" <mgruenthal at mac.com> wrote:

>Just ran a stable in 6.5 iPad (1024 X 768) stack in the iOS 7 retina
>simulator. As is, it is scaled down to occupy the bottom left quarter of
>the simulator screen, but all objects are actually where they belong e.g.
>touching a button where it¹s rendered in the bottom left quarter doesn't
>work, but touching where it should be does). This issue is solved if I set
>the new usePixelScaling property to false, but then everything looks fuzzy
>and seems to have a non-retina resolution.
>
>Anyone else seeing this issue?
>
>On 2/14/14, 1:05 PM, "Benjamin Beaumont" <ben at runrev.com> wrote:
>
>>Dear List Members.
>>
>>We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 6.6 DP1.
>>
>>Warning, this is a pre-release with new features which have the potential
>>to cause issues. Please ensure you backup your stacks before testing this
>>release.
>>
>>*Important Changes*
>>
>>   1. *Tiger support dropped*. As of version 6.6-dp-1, OS 10.4 (Tiger)
>>   support has been dropped from LiveCode. This is primarily for
>>technical
>>   reasons: In order to support the latest OS X features (e.g. Cocoa -
>>   LiveCode 6.7 - coming soon) as well as include the newest versions of
>>   thirdparty libraries (e.g. LibSkia, LibSQLite), dropping 10.4 support
>>was
>>   required. Users wishing to produce 10.4 compatible executables can
>>still do
>>   so using LiveCode version 6.5.x (and earlier).
>>
>>*Release Contents*
>>This development release contains the following changes:
>>
>>   - 'assert' command (experimental)
>>   - New **showAll** fullscreenmode.
>>   - Hi-DPI support for Windows 7/8 and OSX.
>>   - Image Filtering Updates
>>   - Graphics Library Update
>>   - OpenSSL & Encryption Updates
>>   - '#!' now recognised by server
>>   - SQLite support updated and improved
>>   - Stack scaling
>>   - OS 10.4 (Tiger) Support dropped
>>   - 14 bug fixes:
>>      - 11754 - Error (invalid bundle) on uploading app to iOS App Store
>>      - 11751 - After selecting an item in an option menu containing
>>      unicode, the label is corrupted (Mac only)
>>      - 11732 - <> operator is different from \'is not\' operator for
>>arrays
>>      - 11721 - Crash when taking a snapshot of the template graphic
>>      - 11720 - SQLite FTS feature doesn't work on iOS or Mac.
>>      - 11703 - iPhoneSetRemoteControlDisplay crashes
>>      - 11462 - Failing to set image data to the image data of self
>>      - 11124 - No error message when external not found when deploying
>>to
>>      simulator
>>      - 11069 - mobileComposeMail attachment missing in Android
>>      - 10910 - \"Crop image\" command crashes LiveCode application
>>      - 10467 - Indenting of scripts can go wrong
>>      - 10280 - SQLite binary entries are non-standard.
>>      - 8044 - setting a cprop with quotes loses data
>>      - 5331 - Mac live window resizing is off by default.
>>
>>*Planned changed for DP2*
>>- Proxy support
>>
>>*Known Issues*
>>- Text scaling/clipping on Linux with stack scale set
>>
>>*Sample Stacks*
>>We have included 3 sample stack demonstrating some of the new
>>features/improvements in this release:
>>- Stack showing effect of changes in image quality
>>- Stack showing effect of fullscreenmode on desktop
>>- Stack showing effect of stack scale on desktop
>>
>>*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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