Corona Bundle for TextMate

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

Hi,

If you use TextMate to code your Corona apps, you may be interested in checking out the Corona Bundle for TextMate that I’ve made available. It basically extends the existing Lua bundle to add support for Corona-specific keywords in autocomplete, as well as a number of snippets for common Corona functions. I’m adding more keywords and snippets as I go along. You can get more info here:

http://www.ludicroussoftware.com/corona/corona-bundle-for-textmate/

Feedback/suggestions are welcome!

Thanks!
Darren [import]uid: 1294 topic_id: 2269 reply_id: 302269[/import]

#2

Darren, you are my hero! :slight_smile:

I have just abandoned Xcode and I am getting used to TextMate, which has some excellent features for code authoring. What intrigued me mostly in TM was the code snippets feature, which I suspected would give a solution for autocompletion in Corona projects.

My intention was to write snippets for commonly used code blocks (such as event handlers) as a generic base which I could then extend with specific-purpose code. However, I am slow at this, as I am learning Lua at the same time :slight_smile:

Your bundle, is going to help me very much!
I am also going to share whatever useful comes out from my attempts.

Thanks again! [import]uid: 7356 topic_id: 2269 reply_id: 6838[/import]

#3

Just to add that command-R is not working here for some reason. I’ve installed Corona where the tmcommand file also says. [import]uid: 7356 topic_id: 2269 reply_id: 6840[/import]

#4

Hi Magenda,

Not sure why it wouldn’t be working for you, but in any event I’ll be making some changes to that part of the bundle over the weekend. Perhaps the new version will fix the problem you’re experiencing.

Thanks,
Darren [import]uid: 1294 topic_id: 2269 reply_id: 6885[/import]

#5

Just wanted to give you guys an update. I’ve been helping out on the TextMate bundle, and you can find my branch here on GitHub:

http://github.com/danro/Corona-SDK.tmbundle

I’ve reworked the “Run Simulator” command, so that it both launches and reloads the current simulator using a single command. [import]uid: 9864 topic_id: 2269 reply_id: 7439[/import]

#6

I am having an issue installing the bundle.

TextMate is not in my Application Support folder (looked in both, no where to be found).

I am currently only using the trial version and would like to know if that is my problem? Not sure what im missing!

Thanks in advance! [import]uid: 9968 topic_id: 2269 reply_id: 8656[/import]

#7

If there’s no TextMate/Bundles directory in your Application Support directory, you can create those manually. TextMate should pick up any bundles installed in that directory when it starts up.

Thanks,
Darren [import]uid: 1294 topic_id: 2269 reply_id: 8778[/import]

#8

Running the simulator does work for me either. I get
Last login: Sun Nov 21 11:40:21 on ttys003
/Applications/CoronaSDK/simulator /Users/rupert/Documents/dev/KeePeeUppy/source
Rupert-Hawkess-Mac-mini:~ rupert$ /Applications/CoronaSDK/simulator /Users/rupert/Documents/dev/KeePeeUppy/source
-bash: /Applications/CoronaSDK/simulator: No such file or directory
Rupert-Hawkess-Mac-mini:~ rupert$
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#9

Command-R triggers XCode for me since there is a XCode Bundle provided by TextMate. It appears that the bundles provided by TextMate have higher priority over user supplied ones. I realize I can delete the XCode Bundle but I do not wish to do this yet in case I occasionally use XCode as well. Will need to figure out how to disable a bundle or change order of prioritization. Has anyone been able to resolve this issue? Thanks

Edit - I found a way to Hide a bundle using the Bundle Editor - Filter option and now Command-R triggers the Corona SDK but it just brings the SDK up and does not start the app as its seen in some of the ANSCA demos. Ok, one step at a time. [import]uid: 11904 topic_id: 2269 reply_id: 13054[/import]

#10

Hi ksan,

By any chance does the path to your project directory contain a space in it? e.g.

“/path/to/folder/Hello World” ?

It looks like there’s a bug in the simulator launch code caused by spaces in the directory names. The easiest fix is to remove the spaces. I’m looking into the bug right now, and will post a fix when I have one.

Thanks,
Darren [import]uid: 1294 topic_id: 2269 reply_id: 13067[/import]

#11

Hi Darren,

Thanks for your quick response. You are absolutely right! I did have spaces in there. I tried Command-R on a project that does not have spaces in the path and it worked as expected. Brilliant. Thanks for all your hard work.

Regards,
KS [import]uid: 11904 topic_id: 2269 reply_id: 13092[/import]

#12

Has anyone done a Corona extension like this for TextWrangler? If not I might do one. I don’t know if TextWrangler does auto-complete and anyway I don’t care, but having syntax highlighting for Corona commands would be really helpful. [import]uid: 12108 topic_id: 2269 reply_id: 13883[/import]

#13

Just a quick update: I’ve created a dedicated page for the TextMate bundle where I’m posting news of updates to the bundle, etc.

Latest additions include code colouring - if you’ve tried it out let me know what you think, or if I missed any keywords that should get the code colouring treatment.

Thanks,
Darren

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#14

Hi Everyone,

Just wanted to let you know that I’ve just finished a whole bunch of updates to the bundle:

  • Updated some of the snippets that were out-of-date due to changes in the Corona SDK.

  • Added a bunch of new snippets, mainly for the media package

  • Started to organize the bundle menu into a set of submenus, grouping snippets by package.

  • Added parentheses to many of the functions in the completions list if the function does not take any arguments (e.g. the completion is now ‘stopTuner()’ instead of ‘stopTuner’, so you don’t have to type those parentheses anymore).

  • Sorted the completion list alphabetically, and put full package paths at the end of the completion list.

As I mentioned earlier, visit this page for all the bundle info you could possibly want.

Thanks,
Darren [import]uid: 1294 topic_id: 2269 reply_id: 16725[/import]

#15

Thanks a lot Darren. This bundle is great. Much appreciated. [import]uid: 13932 topic_id: 2269 reply_id: 16943[/import]

#16

It appears there might be a naming issue with the Simulator path… I had to move the last version I pulled from Anscamobile from the .243 directory to the path specified within the bundle (or vice versa) /Applications/CoronaSDK/simulator [import]uid: 16550 topic_id: 2269 reply_id: 18843[/import]

#17

That’s right. At the moment, the bundle doesn’t support setting an environment variable for the SDK path. It’s on the to-do list, though.

Darren [import]uid: 1294 topic_id: 2269 reply_id: 18903[/import]

#18

Sorry for the newbie question but would it be complex to port this over to textwrangler? Are they sufficiently different programs that this would not be possible?
thanks! [import]uid: 16901 topic_id: 2269 reply_id: 23813[/import]

#19

@txmarsh: no idea, as I don’t know what kind of bundle (or whatever it might be called) support TextWrangler has. The TextMate bundle is open source, so feel free to grab it from GitHub and give it a try.

Thanks,
Darren [import]uid: 1294 topic_id: 2269 reply_id: 23856[/import]

#20

Hey txmarsh.

I don’t use textwrangler, but the link here says it supports syntax highlighting. Maybe that is what you want?

http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaEditorSupport (scroll about 1/2 down page)

Cheers,

Peter [import]uid: 13932 topic_id: 2269 reply_id: 23857[/import]