Issues with display.newText()

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#1

Hi! I am currently on a Mac using Corona labs. I am really new at this and I am currently working on Chapter 2. I went to go and display the lives and score text and I keep coming up with an error message. I have tried several spacing issues and have checked over my lines multiple times and can’t seem to figure it out.  Any ideas what iI can do?

#2

So the error says “Bad argument #1” and it got a nil, where a string was expected. Now the error is sort of misleading. The first argument can also be a display group or a table of parameters, but that’s not the important part here. A nil was passed into the first argument which is not allowed.  

Your first argument is uiGroup, so you need to figure out why uiGroup is nil.  There should be a line somewhere above it similar to:

local uiGroup = display.newGroup()

so we need to know why that’s failing.

Rob

#3

So the error says “Bad argument #1” and it got a nil, where a string was expected. Now the error is sort of misleading. The first argument can also be a display group or a table of parameters, but that’s not the important part here. A nil was passed into the first argument which is not allowed.  

Your first argument is uiGroup, so you need to figure out why uiGroup is nil.  There should be a line somewhere above it similar to:

local uiGroup = display.newGroup()

so we need to know why that’s failing.

Rob