RELEASE: LiveCode 6.1.1

Benjamin Beaumont ben at runrev.com
Wed Sep 11 09:52:13 EDT 2013


Dear List Members,

We are very pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 6.1.1. This is the
first release from our new maintenance cycle.

This release contains 57 bug fixes, some of which improve the stability of
the IDE making for a much nicer coding experience. The 6.0 release also had
a few sporadic instabilities with images which we believe have now been
resolved.

We would recommend all community and commercial users update to 6.1.1.

Thank you to all those in the community who took time to work with our
quality team to reproduce issues and submit bug reports. Your support is
invaluable.

*Download*
To get LiveCode 6.1.1 go to the help menu from within LiveCode and select
'check for updates'. Alternatively, you can downloads the installers from
us at:

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

*Release Contents*
- 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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