Data Entry Form

Getting Started Newbie Questions
#1

I am new to lua.  Our company wants to write a data entry form for our sales people.  I understand the SQL part, but i’m not sure how to create a form with text boxes and labels and such.  I can figured out how to add a button, but how does the coordinate system work ?

If any one can point me to a tutorial of other documentation.

THanks

#2

The coronaLabs tutorial for text editing (a notepad like app I think) is at:

http://www.coronalabs.com/blog/2012/02/07/tutorial-text-input-with-native-ui/

I did a quick look in the code exchange and didn’t see any helper code / libraries, and a quick web search too. Kinda surprised no one has made a good text entry module yet.

In general the chatter I hear from most devs is that they don’t use multiple native.textfields onscreen at once due to various issues/complications.

More typically, standard display objects are used for display / initial tap detection, and then either a single native field is created on top of it for the input, or the native field is created off screen and the input mimicked to the standard display.newText field. When enter is tapped, the native field is typically destroyed and the app continues on without the side effect of having a native field onscreen (always on top of other objects).

#3

Go here:  http://docs.coronalabs.com/

At the top are two links:  Guides and Tutorials.  There should be things there to get you going.

#4

The coronaLabs tutorial for text editing (a notepad like app I think) is at:

http://www.coronalabs.com/blog/2012/02/07/tutorial-text-input-with-native-ui/

I did a quick look in the code exchange and didn’t see any helper code / libraries, and a quick web search too. Kinda surprised no one has made a good text entry module yet.

In general the chatter I hear from most devs is that they don’t use multiple native.textfields onscreen at once due to various issues/complications.

More typically, standard display objects are used for display / initial tap detection, and then either a single native field is created on top of it for the input, or the native field is created off screen and the input mimicked to the standard display.newText field. When enter is tapped, the native field is typically destroyed and the app continues on without the side effect of having a native field onscreen (always on top of other objects).

#5

Go here:  http://docs.coronalabs.com/

At the top are two links:  Guides and Tutorials.  There should be things there to get you going.