Data entry forms and on-phone storage?

Getting Started Newbie Questions
#1

Hi,

Just started looking at Corona…

I am looking at creating simple data entry forms and need to have text entry, pick lists (text and date and time), check boxes, and radio button type inputs.

I can see native UI text fields but can’t find support for the other types. Do they exist?

When the user has filled the form I’d like to save locally. Can I write a file or do I need to use a database?

At some point later I’d want to upload all data to a server. What tools are there to do that?

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#2

Picker (“pick lists” as you put it) is available and can be seen in the WidgetDemo sample code.

The radio button and check boxes are, IIRC, available easily using this awesome submission to the code exchange; http://developer.coronalabs.com/code/dmc-corona-library

You can save the info in a SQLite database locally and you can upload it to a server too. You can google for more into on specifics for that (the steps aren’t different for Corona to anything else, really) or see learningcorona.com which I *think* had a tutorial on something similar listed.

Hope this helps!

Peach :slight_smile: [import]uid: 52491 topic_id: 28281 reply_id: 114290[/import]