cant create corona project IntelliJ

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
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I cant create a corona project in IntelliJ.
The problem is I cant include the corona sdk in the lua project.

I have downloaded the corona api for lua called

sylvanaar2-idlua-sdk-corona-55c93a453c65

I add this to the lua project as per instructions and find the corona sdk to click but it never appears in the external library. I run the test project and get the simulator up with a blank screen.

http://producerism.com/blog/how-to-develop-in-corona-sdk-on-windows/

and
https://bitbucket.org/sylvanaar2/lua-for-idea/wiki/Installing_a_Custom_API

I dont mean to complain but honestly the has taken me 2 hours of fiddling around trying to get corona/lua/intelliJ to work.
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Do you have the corona_api files in your external libraries?

Are you using John Lindquist’s method of launching corona with a macro? [import]uid: 52111 topic_id: 24159 reply_id: 97484[/import]

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NO, but I got it to work.

THis was a painful setup and it will take a few projects before I am confident in using this.

The explanations on versions used are all out of date.

The problem was the corona -intellij external library wasnt picked up. [import]uid: 138569 topic_id: 24159 reply_id: 97494[/import]

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1)download & Install corona sdk from corona website (just use trial)
need to register and have IE working
https://developer.anscamobile.com/downloads/coronasdk

  1. download & Install intelliJ community edition
    http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/index.html
    3)download Lua so can out in intelliJ
    http://code.google.com/p/luaforwindows/
    4)Download corona api into intelliJ
    extract whole thing into folder of choice (2 folders deep)
    https://bitbucket.org/sylvanaar2/lua-for-idea/wiki/Installing_a_Custom_API

5)Install lua and corona into IntelliJ
not up to date versiona but it works.
Follow set below in this link to get it all working in intelliJ.

http://producerism.com/blog/how-to-develop-in-corona-sdk-on-windows/

6)every project created need to set simulator as in above link.
Need external library to show corona , have simulato setup and it should run properly.

NOT SIMPLE (give yourself a few hours)! but corona is far easy to use than Android SDK with games and AS3 mobile projects

If you can get over this setup then game making is very practical with Corona/Lua.

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