Welcome to this week’s From the Forum. In this post, we highlight a few Corona Community Forums posts that cover important topics.
Spin the wheel
An enterprising developer wanted a user interface action that spins like a slot machine wheel. A widget.newPickerWheel didn’t do exactly what he wanted, so he decided to “roll” his own. In this post he shares his solution.
Changing your radius
Resizing circles during a transition isn’t always obvious. Fortunately, RoamingGamer came up with a clever solution to allow transitions to alter the size of a circle object. See the magic here.
Date math magic
Parsing dates is useful in many instances. Once again, RoamingGamer comes to the rescue with some simple techniques to take any given date and get more information about it. Learn how in this post.
Do you have a particular forum thread that was helpful for you? Let us know about it! Email support@coronalabs.com, put FTF: and the forum title in the subject, and include the URL in the email. We will consider adding it to an upcoming edition of From the Forum.