Need help with display.newtext and why it's messing up on me

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#1 
 menuData = {"Option 1", "Option 2", "Option 3", "Option 4", "Option 5"} for menuDisp = 1, #menuData do local menuData = display.newText(menuData[menuDisp], 160, 100, 0, 0, "Arial", 45) end

is there something I’m doing wrong or is does this just not work like this. I’m trying to get it to display like this

 Main Menu Option 1 Option 2 Option 3 Option 4 Option 5

but it keeps looking like this

http://screencast.com/t/X9UrrgJg

any help would be appreciated

#2

Hi @twilson9182,

You’re correctly iterating through the “menuData” table, but you’re not changing the Y position of the text objects. So, they just overlap each other. Consider adding a Y value multipled by the loop index, like this:

[lua]

    local menuData = display.newText(menuData[menuDisp], 160, 100+(menuDisp*50), 0, 0, “Arial”, 45)

[/lua]

Hope this helps,

Brent

#3

Hi @twilson9182,

You’re correctly iterating through the “menuData” table, but you’re not changing the Y position of the text objects. So, they just overlap each other. Consider adding a Y value multipled by the loop index, like this:

[lua]

    local menuData = display.newText(menuData[menuDisp], 160, 100+(menuDisp*50), 0, 0, “Arial”, 45)

[/lua]

Hope this helps,

Brent