Hello,
I’m having some issues pertaining to the Facebook.showDialog() function in the latest version of Corona. According to the documentation I found (referencing this page: http://docs.coronalabs.com/api/library/facebook/showDialog.html), we are able to pass a table of params to the showDialog() function, similar to how Facebook.request() works. In my project, I have two functions I’ve been testing for sharing on Facebook, which are:
A silent posting method:
[lua]function FacebookShareSilent()
facebook.request(“me/feed”, “POST”, {message = “Corona Facebook Test”});
end[/lua]
And a method where the dialog is displayed to the user and prompts them to post:
[lua]function FacebookSharePrompt()
facebook.showDialog(“me/feed”, {message = “Corona Facebook Test”});
end[/lua]
If I call my FacebookShareSilent() request, the pre-generated message of ‘Corona Facebook Test’ will show up on my user’s wall. If I call FacebookSharePrompt(), the message field is left as ‘Say something…’ and prompts the user to put in their own text.
I’ve used FacebookConnect on a native iOS app before and was able to change this default message in the dialog prompt from ‘Say something…’ to a specific message using the paramater ‘description’, however, using that paramter for my showDialog() call didn’t help either.
All the pages and documentation I’ve seen mentioning that showDialog() is unable to pass a pre-generated message are old versions of the function when you could only pass 'action=“publish.stream” as a parameter, and I can’t find any documentation for the newer showDialog() function that suggests you can or can not set your own message.
Anyone have any ideas or suggestions? Is setting a pre-generated message through the showDialog() function possible? Or is this not supported?
Thanks
**EDIT**
Meant to include, if I use apprequests for the action, such as this:
[lua]function FacebookSharePrompt()
facebook.showDialog(“apprequests”, {message = “Corona Facebook Test”});
end[/lua]
My preset message of ‘Corona Facebook Test’ shows up correctly. Is this just not supported with actions such as stream.publish or feed? [import]uid: 138013 topic_id: 27373 reply_id: 327373[/import]