Immediate evaluation in Corona emulator

Getting Started Newbie Questions
#1

One of the best features of the stand alone Lua interpreter is it is possible to use it as a learning tool by trying single lines of Lua and seeing what happens.  

I would like to do the same thing in the Corona Simulator but I dont know if this is possible.  The Corona Simulator Console seems to be output only and if there is a way to stop a program and run arbitrary Lua in the Corona debugger I have not figured it out.

My next try will be to create a TextBox whose acction is to call load to run snippits but I dont want to try that if there is an obvious way I am missing.

#2

If you run Corona Simulator from the computer (and not go through an IDE, when you save your .lua file, Corona should auto refresh and show your changes.  This is however a preference that can be switched off.  And writing code to network discs do not always trigger the file update flag that we look for.

If you are using an IDE as long as the simulator is running, the act of saving a .lua file should trigger it’s a reload.

Rob

#3

If you run Corona Simulator from the computer (and not go through an IDE, when you save your .lua file, Corona should auto refresh and show your changes.  This is however a preference that can be switched off.  And writing code to network discs do not always trigger the file update flag that we look for.

If you are using an IDE as long as the simulator is running, the act of saving a .lua file should trigger it’s a reload.

Rob