RELEASE 7.0.1-rc-1

[Ali Lloyd]

Dear list members,

We're pleased to announce release of LiveCode 7.0.1-rc-1.

*Warning:* this is not a stable release. Please ensure you back up your
stacks before testing them.

*Release Contents*
This release contains 38 bugfixes:
13850 ask file and ask folder default to wrong folder
13848 Popup menu items with Quit / Preferences or About are hidden on Mac.
13847 Cmd keys not working correctly
13842 Yosemite UI: the text colour of highlighted buttons should be white
13840 Stopped MCS_savebinaryfile() from failing if MCresult is non-empty.
13833 Rendering many grcs when acceleratedRendering is true crashes hard
13829 Change in how formattedRect of chunk is reported
13827 Can't use double-byte characters for a standalone name
13824 Hang in MCExecContext::TryToEvaluateExpressionAsNonStrictBool()
13821 Unable to set cursor hotspot
13809 Specifying "width" in measureText throws error
13804 export snapshot crashes LC7GM 1
13803 Potential instability after setting defaultNetworkInterface.
13802 Android standalone big text collapse
13800 Could not generate package manifest when newer Android Build tools
are installed
13799 Use Helvetica Neue as the default font on OSX Yosemite
13797 Using put into url causes executable bit to be set on the target file
if it is created on Linux.
13796 Creating a script only stack causes unwanted messages to stderr.
13791 Crash when saving a script-only stack.
13790 iPhone player object doesn't respect the rect property on creation
13787 'ends with' can return the wrong result if a string contains
surrogates or combining sequences.
13785 The 'properties' property returns different keys from the 6.7 version.
13784 Crash exporting image as png
13783 Empty is among the items of empty
13780 mobileSetAllowedOrientations broken on android
13778 Setting the httpHeaders causes crash on "put url"
13776 [[ LC 7.0 ]] Player plays audio but not video
13773 Make sure the first callback is always sent
13770 Every string contains empty
13751 Player Volume Control Erratic
13730 Cannot specify text encoding of server script file.
13704 securityPermissions not working for disk and network access
13598 Instability when deleting a space before a handler definition on the
very first line of a script.
13554 Corruption of stacks
13350 Export snapshot from rect at size selects the wrong source rectangle
12558 Older versions of LiveCode report a corrupt stack when opening a file
from newer version
11912 Selected text in list fields and TAB buttons wrong colour
11647 After Android hardware backKey is pressed

*Known Issues*
Since this also contains all the changes in 6.7.1-rc-1, all the associated
known issues are also present in this release.

The release is available at:
http://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/

*Release Notes*
http://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/7_0_1/LiveCodeNotes-7_0_1_rc_1.pdf

Kind Regards,

Ali