A new display.newText

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#1

I’d like to see a better newText, especially with:

  1. Native support of retina display resolution (right now it looks blurry on retina… there are some hacks but I’d like a native solution)
  2. Support of alignment
  3. Support of wrapped text
  4. Maybe support of basic html? (at least font color, bold, italic, font size and so on)

Basically a display.newTextBox, pretty similar to the native.newTextBox but that can be used in the same way of the display.newText object (I guess an opengl rendered textbox?)

(I know there are some libraries in code exchange to do that, but it’s something that should be implemented natively) [import]uid: 9158 topic_id: 5978 reply_id: 305978[/import]

#2

Is this forum section for show stopping bugs or feature requests? [import]uid: 5712 topic_id: 5978 reply_id: 20558[/import]

#3

+1

Whilst I’ve changed the UI.LUA to use BeebeGames’s retina text support I think it crazy that it’s not part of the core of Corona.

I still cannot get Retina text to be displayed correctly on the table/list views!

COME ON ANSCA THIS HAS TO BE ADDRESSED AND SOON. IT MAKES APPS WRITTEN WITH CORONA LOOK SECOND RATE ON RETINA DISPLAYS!!!

Please at least respond! [import]uid: 9371 topic_id: 5978 reply_id: 20551[/import]

#4

Show stoppers. For me to create professional apps they need to look as good as they possibly can on Retina displays. So for ME this is a show stopper! [import]uid: 9371 topic_id: 5978 reply_id: 20559[/import]

#5

Have you seen this thread?

http://developer.anscamobile.com/forum/2010/12/17/easily-make-your-text-sharp-retina-displays

I’m not sure if it helps, but I happened to see it the other day.
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#6

@dweezel : responded

:stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: [import]uid: 24 topic_id: 5978 reply_id: 20732[/import]

#7

@lococo Yes, I know about that… but I’d prefer to don’t use custom libraries (or resize text) just to show a non blurred text on retinas…

And another thing… the text placement on corona simulator and iphone simulator/device is different, it takes a lot of time just to fix all the positions [import]uid: 9158 topic_id: 5978 reply_id: 20736[/import]

#8

@ Carlos, I’ll take that as “yes the new UI features and the existing ones have all been upgraded to support retina”.

I’ve actually changed the buttons and tab bar but still having trouble getting the table view to support retina text so I’m really hoping this new UI stuff will be retina enabled.

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