Well, I’ve heard about Corona Composer, unfortunately I don’t own a mac, so I called a friend and he’s gonna let me use his mac.
I wanted to use the composer to adjust textFields/textBoxes/Images/ScrollViews/PickerWheels/Buttons…etc positions and properities…
Problem is I heard the composer can’t do that,
so my question is
Is that true ?
If the composer can’t do such things, is there any other tool that can do ?
if there isn’t how do people adjust widgets positions easily ?
Composer is more for adding and managing art assets. As a general UI/Widget layout tool, we are not quite there yet.
There isn’t a general layout tool that I’m aware of. When I do these types of things, I use a technique of using relative distnaces:
local buttonOffset = 50
button1.x = 50
button1.y = 50
button2.x = button1.x
button2.y = button1.y + buttonOffset
Then if you need to change the distance between buttons, change the offset. Need to move the whole bunch, change the first button.
Rob
Looking to get into corona SDK but being a windows user is there a approximate ETA for Composer being available on windows?
Because of the way Windows does not allow native objects like text fields to mix with OpenGL windows and Composer needs quite a few text fields, this will not likely be happening anytime soon.
Rob
Composer is more for adding and managing art assets. As a general UI/Widget layout tool, we are not quite there yet.
There isn’t a general layout tool that I’m aware of. When I do these types of things, I use a technique of using relative distnaces:
local buttonOffset = 50
button1.x = 50
button1.y = 50
button2.x = button1.x
button2.y = button1.y + buttonOffset
Then if you need to change the distance between buttons, change the offset. Need to move the whole bunch, change the first button.
Rob
Looking to get into corona SDK but being a windows user is there a approximate ETA for Composer being available on windows?
Because of the way Windows does not allow native objects like text fields to mix with OpenGL windows and Composer needs quite a few text fields, this will not likely be happening anytime soon.
Rob