LiveCode empowers you to develop applications that run in any environment, using a fast and easy compile-­free workflow.

Build your interface visually, add English-like code and make changes while your code is running. Then deploy to desktop and mobile devices.

Getting this Release

To upgrade to this release please select "check for updates" from the help menu in LiveCode.

Known Issues

There is still a performance drop in the 6.6.x series compared to the 6.5.x series due to the new support for high resolution displays. Work is currently ongoing to resolve this in the 6.7 release. We will shortly be releasing an RC1 of LiveCode 6.6.3 which contains 12 fixes that were deemed not suitable for the latter stages of the 6.6.2 cycle.

Fixes / Improvements in LiveCode 6.6.2

This release is primarily a productivity and 'fix it' release.

  • 12443 - import snapshot crashes LiveCode
  • 12434 - iOS device builds rejected from app store due to XCode version
  • in plist
  • 12418 - Mail attachment from app file fails
  • 12414 - Setting usePixelScaling causes infinite window reopening loop on Mac.
  • 12408 - Encryption commands do not work for iOS device builds
  • 12382 - Normal resizeQuality is slow
  • 12365 - After "putting" return into a Field, a visible residue is left from the cursor
  • 12350 - The fontStyles is incorrect on iOS
  • 12341 - Fix vGrid rendering for non-fixed-width table field mode.
  • 12319 - Drag and drop going wrong when Display switched to 150%
  • 12294 - Crash and flaky behavior at certain points.
  • 12286 - Maximizing a window where only the title-bar is on-screen causes a crash on Mac.
  • 12265 - Rounded rects are drawn incorrectly when using the image
  • editing tools with a linesize 1
  • 12239 - Magnification window shows corrupted image.
  • 12237 - Attempt to attach to the launching console on Windows (if any) in standalones.
  • 12236 - Dropdown menus are clipped on Windows when text scale > 100%
  • 12235 - Tooltips clipped on Windows when text scaling > 100%
  • 12227 - When Windows screen display is set to 125% popups sometimes break
  • 12223 - Windows backdrop doesn't cover the full desktop area when displayed on a high-dpi screen.
  • 12210 - revBrowserSnapshot not working on Windows with IE9+
  • 12206 - Buttons of menu type can't be inspected if first created object
  • 12200 - Some filesystem entries in the root of a volume on Mac report as files when they are really folders.
  • 12185 - Standalone engine crashes when -ui specified on Linux.
  • 12183 - Clicking in the scrollbar well doesn't work if the click is too short.
  • 12182 - 'the pageRanges' doesn't work on fields with more than 64K chars.
  • 12175 - Setting the usePixelScaling property doesn't update all windows on Mac.
  • 12173 - Styling does not work for certain iOS fonts
  • 12170 - Non-existant command line parameter variables ($) behave strangely with split.
  • 12146 - setting tabstops to 2 equal numbers and then turning vGrid on hangs LC
  • 12125 - put the executionContexts crashes LiveCode server
  • 12107 - exit causes liveCode server to crash
  • 12105 - LiveCode server crashed if you call paramCount()
  • 12101 - Graphics missing from imported Hypercard stack
  • 12099 - On awakening Android device from sleep, part of app is blacked out
  • 12088 - The script editor doesn't scroll horizontally as text is entered
  • 12058 - The backdrop on Windows is always black
  • 12044 - Opaque groups do not completely draw their backgrounds when acceleratedRendering is enabled
  • 12037 - Slow-down in setting contents of fields on Windows since 6.1.3.
  • 12027 - On Retina Mac\'s scrollbars with small thumbs render smaller than they should.
  • 12020 - Caret is too thin on Retina displays.
  • 12010 - Windows engine hangs after multiple stack redraws.
  • 12008 - import screen snapshot on iOS creates image of incorrect size.
  • 12006 - HTTP (HTML) URLs encoded with anything other than a native character set are returned incorrectly
  • 11975 - "import snapshot from rect ..." only imports part of the screen on Windows
  • 11964 - Spacing is incorrect for Windows scaled text
  • 11933 - effective textColor returns empty value for styled text
  • 11920 - Memory leak in bitmap effects with spread of non-zero radius (e.g. spread 100%, radius 1; spread 50%, radius 2).
  • 11904 - Italic characters with underhand are clipped on windows
  • 11895 - mobileComposeMail missing attachment in Android (Android Mail)
  • 11884 - Stoked graphics clipped when printed
  • 11860 - uuid and randomBytes functions don't work on iOS when Encryption support is not included
  • 11748 - Crash when putting an empty string into an XML node using PutIntoXMLNode.
  • 11708 - Android apps only partially drawn after rotating device during lock screen
  • 11690 - Once large scripts start scrolling the script editor, it won't stop for a long time on Windows.
  • 11689 - ResizeControl is not sent when resizing images
  • 11662 - Round buttons are drawn incorrectly
  • 11603 - Backdrop not displayed on Linux
  • 11370 - Anti-aliasing inconsistent for 1 pixel lines and curves
  • 11072 - magnify and edit image crashes LC
  • 8041 - Only allow interaction with scrollbars on groups in browse mode.
  • 6400 - On Mac, a tab button with a single item does not draw correctly.
  • 2627 - The machine() function returns "unknown" under Mac OSX