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LiveCode 6.1.1 Released

Post by LCNeil » Wed Sep 11, 2013 2:55 pm

Dear All,

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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Re: LiveCode 6.1.1 Released

Post by Mag » Fri Sep 13, 2013 8:08 am

Thank you!

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Re: LiveCode 6.1.1 Released

Post by williamtmanganBUSupqw » Sun Sep 22, 2013 2:34 pm

Does the new release of livecode support iOS 7

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Re: LiveCode 6.1.1 Released

Post by Klaus » Sun Sep 22, 2013 3:22 pm

Hi Bill,

not yet, but an update will be released shortly!


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Re: LiveCode 6.1.1 Released

Post by edgore » Wed Sep 25, 2013 7:07 pm

Did someone forget about server?

The links on both the community page and the licensed link on my store page for commercial all go to 6.1.0 for Windows Server.

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Re: LiveCode 6.1.1 Released

Post by edgore » Wed Sep 25, 2013 7:09 pm

I also see that there is an RC for 6.1.2 server in downloads.livecode.com/livecode/server/ - any word on what's changed/fixed? I don't think I have seen any announcement about a 6.1.2 anything...

edit - nevermind, found release notes

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Re: LiveCode 6.1.1 Released

Post by makeshyft » Fri Sep 27, 2013 8:01 pm

Rock solid release...no problems so far!!!
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Re: LiveCode 6.1.1 Released

Post by alex298 » Mon Oct 14, 2013 4:10 am

Hello,

I didn't visit RunRev for a very long time. I am so excited to learn that LiveCode becomes an open source software.

I have no enough incentive to upgrade from RR to LiveCode since a few years ago. Therefore I am still using RR4.0.0. I am now thinking to use (or upgrade) the latest version of LiveCode. I have a question:

Is LiveCode same as RR?

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Re: LiveCode 6.1.1 Released

Post by shaosean » Tue Oct 15, 2013 5:44 am

yes, just with changes and updates..

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Re: LiveCode 6.1.1 Released

Post by Mark » Mon Nov 18, 2013 1:17 am

Hi Alex,

LiveCode is the same as Runtime Revolution, as Shaosean write. If by "upgrade" you mean to buy a new commercial license, keep in mind that your commercial license will be valid for only 1 year. When the license expires, you can't use the commercial version anymore.

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Re: LiveCode 6.1.1 Released

Post by jacque » Mon Nov 18, 2013 8:28 pm

Just to be clear, I think you can continue to use the version you purchased. You just don't get any more free updates after a year.
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Re: LiveCode 6.1.1 Released

Post by Mark » Mon Nov 18, 2013 9:15 pm

Hi Jacque,

It used to be like that, but not any more.

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Re: LiveCode 6.1.1 Released

Post by FourthWorld » Mon Nov 18, 2013 10:52 pm

Everyone can use LiveCode Community Edition forever at no cost - and you even get the source code to the engine. You only need to purchase a commercial license to deploy proprietary works.

The first item on this page outlines which deployment scenarios can be satisfied by each type of LiveCode license:
http://livecode.com/support/ask-a-question/
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Re: LiveCode 6.1.1 Released

Post by Mark » Mon Nov 18, 2013 10:59 pm

Hi,

If by "upgrade" Alex means to buy a commercial license, I hope he is aware that this license can be used for one year only. Perhaps we should wait until Alex tells us what he plans to do and then we can give him all the relevant info he needs.

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