Corona fresh install, but it doesn't work correctly

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

Hello everybody !

I installed Corona but I’m having some problems with it.

I open the Simulator and when I want to create a New Project, I can’t continue from that window, if I press Cancel it crashes.

Also I’m trying to open a main.lua file and the output is telling me:

WARNING: Cannot create path for resource file ‘main.lua’ b/c it does not exist.

What can I do?

Thanks so much people!

#2

Are you on Windows or a Mac?

#3

Thanks Rob.

I’m in Windows.

Thanks again man!

#4

I’m not that familiar with windows, but you could have a permission problem where you’re trying to do something that requires admin permissions.  What I would do, is create a folder/directory in your My Documents folder that’s named after the project you want to create.  Use a plain text editor like notepad and create a simple main.lua file and save it to the folder.

Then instead of hitting the new project button, do a File->Open and navigate to the folder you created and see if that works.  I’ll try to get someone with access to Windows to poke their nose in here and offer so suggestions.

Rob

#5

This is a known issue if you have any UTF8 characters in your user path name in Windows that may crash the simulator when opening up a new project or doing a build. We should have a fix for this soon. In the mean time you could try creating a new user without any UTF8 characters and everything should work.

Tom

#6

Hello guys, thanks for your response.

The error was with the UTF8 characters. I created a project in C:\ and works correctly.

Thanks once again.

#7

Are you on Windows or a Mac?

#8

Thanks Rob.

I’m in Windows.

Thanks again man!

#9

I’m not that familiar with windows, but you could have a permission problem where you’re trying to do something that requires admin permissions.  What I would do, is create a folder/directory in your My Documents folder that’s named after the project you want to create.  Use a plain text editor like notepad and create a simple main.lua file and save it to the folder.

Then instead of hitting the new project button, do a File->Open and navigate to the folder you created and see if that works.  I’ll try to get someone with access to Windows to poke their nose in here and offer so suggestions.

Rob

#10

This is a known issue if you have any UTF8 characters in your user path name in Windows that may crash the simulator when opening up a new project or doing a build. We should have a fix for this soon. In the mean time you could try creating a new user without any UTF8 characters and everything should work.

Tom

#11

Hello guys, thanks for your response.

The error was with the UTF8 characters. I created a project in C:\ and works correctly.

Thanks once again.