Dear LiveCode User, We are pleased to announce the preview release of LiveCode 6.7.0 DP1.
The primary focus of this release is cocoa support. This required us to re-port LiveCode to the newer Mac platform API's (cocoa). As a result, there may be some instabilities on Mac OS. Once again, thanks to those who helped with alpha testing to iron out the major bugs. 6.7 has now passed all automated tests and a first pass community test. We are aware of a sporadic crash related to audio which we've been unable to replicate or trace. *THERE ARE INSTABILITIES IN THIS RELEASE* so please take care to use backups of your stacks when testing. *Release Contents* - Cocoa Support - New revBrowser WebKit external (Windows, Mac) with new bi-direction javascript to LiveCode communication. - Mobile In-App Purchasing support extended to Amazon * and Samsung stores - Clipboard data 'styledText' array accessor - OS 10.5 (Leopard) Support dropped - 4 bug fixes: - 11975 - "import snapshot from rect ..." only imports part of the screen on Windows - 11946 - iOS 7.1 Simulator doesn't remember device type when launching using 'Test' - 11917 - Setting the label of an option or combo-box does not update the menuHistory. - 11808 - pixelScaling not enabled on Windows Commercial edition * Our in-app purchasing implementation for the Amazon AppStore is unfortunately restricted to commercial license holders only. This is due to the Amazon PML license being incompatible with the GPL. If you wish to use the Amazon in-app purchasing features of LiveCode you will need to be a valid commercial licence holder. For full details of features and fixes please see the release notes: http://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/6_7_0/LiveCodeNotes-6_7_0_dp_1.pdf *Known Issues* - We are yet to implement an AVFoundation version of the player object and switch the engine to weak link to Quicktime. This is expected for DP2. - Performance on High DPI system slow from 6.6 onwards. Our head of technology posted about this on our blog last week. We plan to refine his prototype and include during the 6.7 cycle. For those of you who missed the post you can read it here: http://livecode.com/blog/2014/03/18/hi-speed-hidpi/. - Sporadic crash related to audio (not reproducible at present). - Field navigation with arrow keys in WebKit browser input fields. http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12047. *Testing* As always we appreciate very much all those who help us refine these early releases. 1. If you are a browser object user, we would appreciate you testing your projects with the new revBrowser external. You can create both old and new WebKit browser instances. Please see the release notes for details of how to create the WebKit variant. The original revBrowser object remains unchanged. 2. If you are a mac users please test all your projects by opening them and seeing how they behave in the new windowing system. Your apps will now be rendering entirely in the cocoa windowing framework so you'll notice subtle differences. 3. If you have a mobile app that uses in-app purchases please see the release notes for details of the new in-app API. You will need to make some minor changes to your projects to ensure that your in-app purchases remain functional with LiveCode 6.7. The new API is cleaner and simpler as well as supporting the two additional stores and subscriptions. *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 *Get the 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/ *Resources* For lessons related to the new in-app purchasing api please see: http://lessons.runrev.com/m/19606 *Future Release* - We plan to put out a 6.6 RC1 maintenance release on Monday with fixes to the stabilities issues in that build. - We also plan to put out a 7.0 DP2 build on Thursday which addresses many of the issues report as well as optimisations to improve performance. Warm regards, The LiveCode Team _____________________________________________ Benjamin Beaumont . RunRev Ltd LiveCode Product Manager mail : 25a Thistle Street Lane South West, Edinburgh, EH2 1EW email : b...@runrev.com company : +44(0) 845 219 89 23 fax : +44(0) 845 458 8487 web : www.runrev.com LiveCode - Programming made simple _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode