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Beta Testing Composer GUI Beta Testing
#1

This is really cool. I have a few projects in the pipeline where this would be really useful.
 
I’ve noticed the following:
 
• No timeline scale in GUI
 
• Timeline animations don’t seem to work (either in the Composer GUI or Corona Simulator)
 
• Grid display / snap to grid doesn’t work
 
• There’s a “native.systemFont size:18” text and what seems to be two grey text boxes seen under the status bar (behind Stroke Width/ Alpha). 
 
 
At one point it crashed with this output while I was trying to edit properties of an object:

Process: Corona Simulator [77292] Path: /Applications/CoronaSDK/Corona Simulator.app/Contents/MacOS/Corona Simulator Identifier: com.coronalabs.Corona\_Simulator Version: 2014.2197 (2014.2197) Code Type: X86-64 (Native) Parent Process: plugin\_host [33433] Responsible: Sublime Text [33430] User ID: 501 Date/Time: 2014-03-15 11:06:12.618 +0900 OS Version: Mac OS X 10.9.2 (13C64) Report Version: 11 Anonymous UUID: C88D6C07-D37C-8664-014D-D5DB215B4B54 Sleep/Wake UUID: EEDB6B2D-519B-47D8-8C77-C9EBC9F7C7B6 Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread Exception Type: EXC\_BAD\_ACCESS (SIGSEGV) Exception Codes: EXC\_I386\_GPFLT Application Specific Information: objc\_msgSend() selector name: respondsToSelector: Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread 0 libobjc.A.dylib 0x00007fff8e72c097 objc\_msgSend + 23 1 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff85723760 +[NSTextInputContext currentInputContext] + 122 2 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff858bc221 +[\_NSAutomaticFocusRing setActiveFirstResponderChanged] + 37 3 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff858bc188 \_\_\_NSPostActiveFirstResponderChanged\_block\_invoke + 29 4 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff8d962ee7 \_\_CFRUNLOOP\_IS\_CALLING\_OUT\_TO\_AN\_OBSERVER\_CALLBACK\_FUNCTION\_\_ + 23 5 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff8d962e57 \_\_CFRunLoopDoObservers + 391 6 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff8d9545f8 \_\_CFRunLoopRun + 776 7 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x00007fff8d9540b5 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 309 8 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x00007fff8316ba0d RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 226 9 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x00007fff8316b7b7 ReceiveNextEventCommon + 479 10 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x00007fff8316b5bc \_BlockUntilNextEventMatchingListInModeWithFilter + 65 11 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff857203de \_DPSNextEvent + 1434 12 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff8571fa2b -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 122 13 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff85713b2c -[NSApplication run] + 553 14 com.apple.AppKit 0x00007fff856fe913 NSApplicationMain + 940 15 com.coronalabs.Corona\_Simulator 0x000000010f29e094 start + 52

BTW. Previously I was wondering why the new scene management API was called composer.*

It didn’t make much sense to me at the time, but now with this GUI it makes perfect sense :slight_smile:

#2

I’ve been playing around with this for a while, and it looks very promising.

I’m know that a lot is still being worked on, but you wanted an honest opinion about the what it’s currently like, and here it is.

I like the flat UI, however it still feels very much “beta”. The UI needs work to make it feel like robust product.

I didn’t run into any show stoppers in the limited time I was playing with it. I had to force-quit once when the UI stopped working, and as mentioned above it crashed a few times while editing properties.

It has great potential and I look forward to see improvements made to the UI and the functionality of Composer GUI.

#3

OMG! I Got Two Words For Ya, Z-Order! I can modify the z-order by dragging and dropping. That’s worth the price of admission alone.

More to come …

#4

Thanks ingemar, yea we agree it does look beta-ish, so hopefully it will look more polished soon. We’ll get your feedback incorporated into our list.

#5

I’ve been playing around with this for a while, and it looks very promising.

I’m know that a lot is still being worked on, but you wanted an honest opinion about the what it’s currently like, and here it is.

I like the flat UI, however it still feels very much “beta”. The UI needs work to make it feel like robust product.

I didn’t run into any show stoppers in the limited time I was playing with it. I had to force-quit once when the UI stopped working, and as mentioned above it crashed a few times while editing properties.

It has great potential and I look forward to see improvements made to the UI and the functionality of Composer GUI.

#6

OMG! I Got Two Words For Ya, Z-Order! I can modify the z-order by dragging and dropping. That’s worth the price of admission alone.

More to come …

#7

Thanks ingemar, yea we agree it does look beta-ish, so hopefully it will look more polished soon. We’ll get your feedback incorporated into our list.