LiveCode 4.5.3 Notes

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.