Native iPhone controls

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#1

Hey Ansca
Will or when will you SDK support native iPhone controls ??
Like buttons, datepickers ect.

Thanks
Jan [import]uid: 1847 topic_id: 103 reply_id: 300103[/import]

#2

Ansca team!

… that would be great, any comment on this?

I was thinking how to re-create some of these with the basics available now, to use in an app, … but would be reinventing the wheel!

Thanks
Peter [import]uid: 1800 topic_id: 103 reply_id: 75[/import]

#3

I agree that this would be fantastic. Even access to a limited select few of them would be super. [import]uid: 2061 topic_id: 103 reply_id: 235[/import]

#4

Any word on this? Given the small screen size, several of these are needed in order to deliver an acceptable UI experience. [import]uid: 3388 topic_id: 103 reply_id: 305[/import]

#5

Agreed; we hear you! The new “native” namespace in SDK 1.0 is intended for this sort of thing. Currently it supports native iPhone UI Alert dialogs, which are handy, but more things will go in there. [import]uid: 3007 topic_id: 103 reply_id: 427[/import]

#6

As you are looking at native UI controls, Miguel de Icaza of the Mono project just blogged about a new namespace they’ve written called MonoTouch.Dialog that looks pretty nice: http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2010/Feb-23.html

I’m not sure how that would translate to lua though…

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#7

I’d add my call for supporting native controls as soon as possible. [import]uid: 5600 topic_id: 103 reply_id: 1217[/import]

#8

Absolutely. While I completely respect the capabilities of Corona right now, the basic native interface objects should be a priority. I think you’d see a huge influx of folks if they were. Save the more complicated items for later on, but supporting sliders, checkboxes/radios, toggles, pickerview, etc., would be a huge win. Having to engineer these inside of lua when they are already natively available is a real pain and just adds bloat.

Don’t get me wrong, LOVE Corona and I’m really excited to see the future directions, but the basic UI tools really need to be at our fingertips. [import]uid: 5659 topic_id: 103 reply_id: 1280[/import]

#9

I’m supporting this request. Also default buttons, list items, icons and stuff like that would be really helpful and would make development much faster. [import]uid: 4286 topic_id: 103 reply_id: 1461[/import]

#10

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#11

Duly noted on the native access to ui controls…

carlos [import]uid: 24 topic_id: 103 reply_id: 6855[/import]

#12

Here’s a recent blog post describing scrolling list views with text and graphics:

http://blog.anscamobile.com/2010/09/create-scrolling-list-views-with-text-and-graphics-in-coronasdk-ios-android-tutorial/
We’ve used this ourselves to create the Pillbox app:

http://blog.anscamobile.com/2010/09/pillbox-app-powered-by-ansca-coming-soon-to-iphone-ipad-and-android-marketplaces-gov20-g2s/
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#13

We have done to make SDK support native iPhone control

You can check them out here Ipad app development [import]uid: 10388 topic_id: 103 reply_id: 8553[/import]

#14

Can the nativeUI namespace be extended to include access to the features? or even mix and match the code, (more like inline assembly) but using Objective-C blocks.

I am not an expert on this, but like the objects can be exposed for Apple Script to play with, can we not have Corona/Lua interacting with the same? or has it got more to do with displaying them on the simulator than plain accessing them?

There was a sample in HTML5 (PhoneGap) that creates the Picker spinner, it would be better if that was ported and provided natively by Corona than an personal implementation.

cheers,

Jayant C Varma [import]uid: 3826 topic_id: 103 reply_id: 8922[/import]