building for device doesn't copy directories?

Getting Started Newbie Questions
#1

hello, i just tried building my (large) app for device for the first time, and i noticed the following line in the simulator window while building:

cp: /Users/Rich/projects/corona/my_app/images is a directory (not copied).

does corona not support directories? will it support directories in the future? also, my app is also just coming up as a blank screen, but i assume that is due to the 8 character filename issue i’ve read about elsewhere on these forums…any idea when this will be resolved?

for what its worth, my app is working fine in the simulator…also, i’ve built the hello world sample and fishies sample for device successfully

thanks
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#2

I was having those same problems. The app would run fine on the simulators but would only show a blank screen if I had any other files with a .lua extension inside my project.

I wrote a simple build script that combines all of your lua files into a main.lua and brings over any images in an /image directory. It’s pretty useful, you can get it here:

http://gist.github.com/267958

After you run it it’ll create a new project inside the build directory. Simply run that project when you build for a device and all should work fine. [import]uid: 70 topic_id: 350 reply_id: 564[/import]

#3

hey Abica, thanks for the build script, it worked great…i am almost there…unfortunately for me i designed my app using a bunch of subdirectories in the images directory that contain identically named files, kind of like this:

images  
 large  
 0.png  
 1.png  
 etc...  
 small  
 0.png  
 1.png  
 etc...

…so i can’t dump them all into the top-level folder just yet, i’ll have to do some munging around in my code to get it working in this current environment corona supports…i’ll post something here once i get a little further… [import]uid: 4044 topic_id: 350 reply_id: 566[/import]