Lua Glider for Corona® v 1.7 Released! -Discounts Included

Glider (IDE)
#1

Hello All,

All of our existing customers who bought Cider will get this upgrade for free! Please ensure our email did not go to your spam box!

We are proud to present to you Lua Glider IDE v 1.7 for Corona® SDK. We thank all of you and our beta testers for making this possible.

Here are some new improvements:

Look and Feel Skinning Engine - Glider never looked so visually appealing! Many more editor themes are available here:
www.mydevelopersgames.com/GliderEditorThemes.zip

Smarter Autocomplete - Fully class aware autocomplete that includes your variables, even globals from other files. Also keeps track of table entries, function parameter types, return values, and more!

Insightful navigation - Navigator panel intelligently nests functions, tables, and variables. Double clicking anything will go to the declaration, even between files. Inherited methods and fields are also shown. Want to show just functions? No problem, turn on the filter. Want to show just globals? No problem, filter out the locals.

Improved goto-declaration system - Want to see where a variable was defined? Just ctrl-click it. Want to know where it is being used? Just highlight it. Glider does more than just a simple text search but honors variable scope.

Many many more IDE improvements such as improved code folding , batch autoformat , smarter autoindent , auto “end” placement, LuaDoc style comment support, TODO comment scanning, integrated web crawler indexer , bookmark view , and many more

Lots of video tutorials are coming soon!

Discount for the first 20 purchasers (automatically applied at checkout)

Try it today!
http://www.mydevelopersgames.com/CIDER/

Best Regards,
M.Y. Developers [import]uid: 55057 topic_id: 31042 reply_id: 331042[/import]

#2

Wow, the discount codes went fast!

Is there an upgrade path for existing Cider users? [import]uid: 135765 topic_id: 31042 reply_id: 124129[/import]

#3

@R.Delia,

There still are discount codes left. If you are an existing user you should have gotten an email with the upgrade. Is it totally free for existing users.

Regards,
M.Y. Developers [import]uid: 55057 topic_id: 31042 reply_id: 124146[/import]

#4

RAM Comparison:
Old Cider: 153 MB
New Cider: 265 MB
Is there a way to decrease the RAM to 50 MB ?
I don’t need a lot of functions or it is java the problem ? [import]uid: 138389 topic_id: 31042 reply_id: 124150[/import]

#5

i just cannot believe such tool exist, great work !!

just please add a small icon per project based on icon.png instead of product icon for both project explorer and file tabs. This is so helpfull to see which file belongs to which project.

Rest is just perfect.

Tom [import]uid: 111283 topic_id: 31042 reply_id: 124179[/import]

#6

Looks good so far! Haven’t had a single problem yet today.

One question: is the Unlock option supposed to disappear once the new version is unlocked? If so, then my .lic code isn’t working. [import]uid: 117162 topic_id: 31042 reply_id: 124198[/import]

#7

@vovosoft,

Is there a way to decrease the RAM to 50 MB ?
Sure, if you would like to tweak RAM usage you can do so by editing the conf file.
For windows:
ProgramFiles->Glider->etc->luaglider.conf
For Mac:
Show package contents->Resources->luaglider->etc->luaglider.conf

you will see a line looking like:
-J-Xms64m -J-Xmx256m … -J-XX:PermSize=48m -J-XX:MaxPermSize=256m"

You can tweak the numbers around however much you like. If your CPU maxes out at 100% it means Glider is not getting enough heap memory. If Glider just crashes outright means it isn’t getting enough “perm” memory. “-J-Xms64m -J-Xmx256m” means minimum 64Mb and Max 256Mb heap memory and likewise for permsize.
@Bladko,
Do you mean you have an icon.png in each one of your project folders? That is a great idea.

@gtellgtell,
No not yet. We plan to have various addon modules in the future that will use that menu option. If you close your IDE and restart and you get no trial screen, it means it worked.

Regards,
M.Y. Developers [import]uid: 55057 topic_id: 31042 reply_id: 124233[/import]

#8

yes, small icon from project folder (icon.png, icon@2x.png etc) is shown instead of Glider icon / Lua icon to get which file is to which project
[import]uid: 111283 topic_id: 31042 reply_id: 124236[/import]

#9

I tried the promo code and it said invalid. Looks like the discount is over. [import]uid: 6119 topic_id: 31042 reply_id: 124251[/import]

#10

@myfrogview,

The discount is automatically applied so you dont need to use the code. You should see a 10% discount at checkout, the promotion is still available.

Regards,
M.Y. Developers [import]uid: 55057 topic_id: 31042 reply_id: 124253[/import]

#11

Excellent! Found the free upgrade license in my *other* email box!

Lucky for ’ someone else’ that the codes weren’t working last night :wink:

Again, Excellent product… And support! Thanks! [import]uid: 135765 topic_id: 31042 reply_id: 124255[/import]

#12

Thank you!

Glider v1.7 is truly excellent. This will totally change the way I develop now making things so much easier.

Everything seems fine at the moment bar one little niggling thing.
I like to have comments in italics but no matter what I change in the settings I can’t seem to get the font in italics! Colour, size and bold all work, just not the italics :frowning:

Thanks also for the great support and quick answers to my recent posts and emails. [import]uid: 37683 topic_id: 31042 reply_id: 124403[/import]

#13

@r.delia,
No problem! glad we were able to get everything sorted out.

@Whiteball,
Which look and feel are you using? All 4 styles (plain, bold, italic, bold+italic) works for us. One thing you might want to try is selecting the Lua section under the dropdown. See image below:


This is because the Lua specific setting will override the “All languages” settings.

Regards,
M.Y. Developers

[import]uid: 55057 topic_id: 31042 reply_id: 124440[/import]

#14

@M.Y.developers, I have a CTR + Q Shortcut to toggle comments. There is a problem.
[lua]–first line of code
second line of code[/lua]
now if I select the 2 lines of code and do CTR + Q it will give:
[lua]----first line of code
–second line of code[/lua]
I was expecting:
[lua]first line of code
–second line of code[/lua] [import]uid: 138389 topic_id: 31042 reply_id: 124441[/import]

#15

I bought Lua Glider last night and I watched most of videos, very impressed with the IDE.

Does Lua Glider support “Sharing” of assets? I mean, something like CPM where you can take an asset from wherever it is and put it on a project

Regards
Hector [import]uid: 100619 topic_id: 31042 reply_id: 124453[/import]

#16

@Vovasoft,

Thanks for the examples. We are looking into this issue.

@Hector,
Thanks for the feature suggestion. At the moment no. However, this type of feature is the focus of the 1.8 roadmap.

Regards,
M.Y. Developers [import]uid: 55057 topic_id: 31042 reply_id: 124462[/import]

#17

Thanks. Today I played and kept learning to use Lua glider and I have a couple of questions:

  1. I couldn’t see optional parameters shown in the autocompletes, I was expecting to see them in square brackets, maybe I’m not doing it correctly

2.- is there a way to quickly remove unused parameters from autocompletes? Somehow I had the idea that if I didn’t use one, by clicking enter once I finished they would go away

  1. Code template shortcuts doesn’t seem to work, not sure if TextExpander might be causing a conflict

4.- How do I install the enhanced themes, colors and fonts that I got with my purchase in the zip file? I didn’t know how to install them
5. In one of the video tutorials, I saw that you highlight systems.documentdirectory, and it gave you a list of other possible parameters for that example like the temp or cache directory. I tried to replicate it and I couldn’t get them

Thanks in advance, overall I’m very happy with your product

Regards
Hector
[import]uid: 100619 topic_id: 31042 reply_id: 124477[/import]

#18

Hello Hector,

  1. Yes its a bit hard to see but required arguments are bolded. We will put brackets around them in an update. Usually required arguments are at the end of a function, the Autocomplete will list them with each successive optional argument removed. See the screenshot below:

  1. At the moment no, but you should be able to select an autocomplete item without the optional arguments you are not using.

  2. Which code template are you trying to use?

  3. You can go to preferences (or tools->options) and click on “import.”

  4. Could you post a snippet, we may have forgotten to add that feature in that particular library function.

Regards,
M.Y. Developers [import]uid: 55057 topic_id: 31042 reply_id: 124492[/import]

#19

Wow, the discount codes went fast!

Is there an upgrade path for existing Cider users? [import]uid: 135765 topic_id: 31042 reply_id: 124129[/import]

#20

Hi,

Thanks very much for your prompt reply.

About #5, I found the solution in the keyboard shortcuts. I found that if I click CTRL + OPTION + SPACE over that argument, autocomplete will display the rest of possible options for that particular argument. I’ll study the rest of keyboard shortcuts as there are some that seem very useful.

I also was able to install the enhanced themes and found one that I like, thanks for helping me.

I think the only issue I have at this time is with the code templates shortcuts. I recorded this short 45 second minute video screen capture, so you can see how I’m doing it, maybe I’m doing something wrong. I tried to use “dnl” for displaying a new line, and if I click “Tab” it doesn’t display it

http://ocotrade.com.s3.amazonaws.com/hdd/Iphone%20Projects/LuaGlider1.mp4

Thanks again
Hector [import]uid: 100619 topic_id: 31042 reply_id: 124546[/import]