Can I confirm player posted?

ChunkyApps · April 19, 2014, 4:28am

I’m using the Social Plugin and would like to reward the player if they post to FB or Twitter.

What do I need to be looking for in the listener function?

I would like to reward them if they post or do something else if they didn’t post.

All I see in the sample code is this:

function listener:popup( event )

print( “name(” … event.name … “) type(” … event.type … “) action(” … tostring(event.action) … “) limitReached(” … tostring(event.limitReached) … “)” )

end

Is there a true or false value in there somewhere to check?

Thanks!

rob · April 19, 2014, 7:06pm

You can dump the event table and see if there are other values there, if not, you have what’s there.

Rob

ChunkyApps · April 19, 2014, 7:23pm

Problem is I don’t know how to print out to simulator because the social plugin doesn’t run on it. I really just need to know if player pressed post or cancel. It doesn’t seem like it should be difficult I just don’t see it noted what gets returned.

rob · April 19, 2014, 8:02pm

All devices have a console log that you can read just like the terminal. See:

http://coronalabs.com/blog/2013/07/09/tutorial-basic-debugging/

ChunkyApps · April 19, 2014, 9:43pm

Been searching for how to dump a table. I know I’ve seen it explained but of course I cannot find it now. And would the button pressed even be in there?

Man, this seems like it should be so easy. If player pressed post, do something. If player pressed cancel, do something else.

Gremlin_Interactive · April 20, 2014, 1:11pm

Sounds like event.action is your friend.

ingemar · April 20, 2014, 1:39pm

event.action = “sent” when a player has posted.

dumping the contents of a table:

for k, v in pairs(table) do print(k, v) end

rob · April 20, 2014, 4:44pm

I’m rather fond of the print_r() function found in the community code:

function print\_r ( t ) &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; local print\_r\_cache={} &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; local function sub\_print\_r(t,indent) &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; if (print\_r\_cache[tostring(t)]) then &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; print(indent.."\*"..tostring(t)) &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; else &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; print\_r\_cache[tostring(t)]=true &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; if (type(t)=="table") then &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; for pos,val in pairs(t) do &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; if (type(val)=="table") then &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; print(indent.."["..pos.."] =\> "..tostring(t).." {") &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; sub\_print\_r(val,indent..string.rep(" ",string.len(pos)+8)) &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; print(indent..string.rep(" ",string.len(pos)+6).."}") &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; elseif (type(val)=="string") then &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; print(indent.."["..pos..'] =\> "'..val..'"') &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; else &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; print(indent.."["..pos.."] =\> "..tostring(val)) &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; end &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; end &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; else &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; print(indent..tostring(t)) &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; end &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; end &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; end &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; if (type(t)=="table") then &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; print(tostring(t).." {") &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; sub\_print\_r(t,"&nbsp; ") &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; print("}") &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; else &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; sub\_print\_r(t,"&nbsp; ") &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; end &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; print() end

It prints tables inside of tables.

ChunkyApps · April 21, 2014, 2:39pm

Thanks for the help everyone!

It seems 3 variables are sent back.

event.type = “social”

event.name=“popup”

And the good one…

event.action = “sent” or “cancelled”

rob · April 19, 2014, 7:06pm