LiveCode 4.5.3 is now available. You can read about new features and improvements in LiveCode 4.5.3
LiveCode 4.5.3 Notes
This release brings you a slew of new iOS features, plus a substantial number of enhancements on mobile and desktop. Additionally, significant improvements have been made to multi-user installation and licensing.
New Features
- Ability to upload to FTP in iOS
- Support for ask question/ask password dialog on iOS
- Ability to detect when iOS keyboard shown/hidden
- Ability to configure iOS keyboard type and 'return-key' type
- Support for 'the httpHeaders' on iOS
- Support for looping video playback on iOS
- Support for making native browser controls translucent on iOS
- Vastly improved orientation support including proper iOS rotation animation
- Support for setting 'prerendered icon' option in plist
- Support for displaying themed large progress bar on Mac
- Support for datagrid on iOS (library now correctly included in standalones)
- Experimental support for multi-channel sound in iOS
- Experimental support for unbounded scroll values on groups (allowing easy implementation of bouncing on iOS)
- Experimental ability to display the standard dirty document mark in the close box on Mac
Improvements
- scrolling with native scrollers on iOS now works correctly
- browser control now correctly displays all pages on iOS
- improved consistency of (vertical) font metrics with desktop Mac engine
- stackfiles now save properly on iOS
- last used simulator version/device now saved in preferences
- text output using pdf printing is now copyable on all platforms
- screenRects now works correctly on Linux
Over 30 bug-fixes and minor improvements.