Public Release 2076 - Masking no longer working on my tableviews

Solar2D Widgets
#21

Hi @staytoooned,

For colors, perhaps the easiest way to “convert” from the old range to the new range is to just add “/255” after your color settings. For example:

[lua]

object:setFillColor( 240/255, 40/255, 60/255 )

[/lua]

Brent

#22

It is - although when you’ve got over 100 text or filled images in each app, and nearly 20 apps to update,  it’s still a right pain.

I wish you could’ve just allowed decimal places on the old 0-255 range and converted this to 0-1 behind the scenes!

#23

I understand all that, but now all my scrollViews are not display at all. Was there a major change here too?

#24

Hi @staytooned,

This is odd, and I’d have to see some code to figure out why they’re not showing up at all.

Thanks,

Brent

#25

Found another huge issue with Graphics 2.0 latest build. I created a scrollView and I want some objects to be added to the scrollView group. This caused my scrollView not to appear. Is there a work around for this? Thanks.

#26

@staytooned, are you needing features of Graphics 2.0 or just upgrading to get the latest bug fixes and such?  For your existing apps, you can simply put:

graphicsCompatibility = 1

in your config.lua where you set your width and your app should run pretty much unmodified.

Rob

#27

Just want to say that I’ve received a reply from Engineering on this re: #29677

  1. This use case will not be covered; if users want to be able to choose between a container mask or bitmap mask, somebody should make a feature request for it. (Which makes sense, it’s not a bug but it is a functionality change vs. 1.0)

  2. Using the workaround (apply a mask manually) means hitting the 3-nest limit (tableView mask, text mask, bitmap mask) so keep in mind it prevents you from adding further container objects inside the view.

#28

So this is technically a deprecated feature without any advance notice. 

#29

Well, the feature still works; it’s just that it uses a container (rectangle) instead of a bitmap now. Which is clean. And you can use graphics.newMask() to still apply a bitmap. G1.0 users would of course have an issue because .mask is deprecated but it’s a small amount of code to fix that.

Where trouble would come is in the nesting; tableView>mask is two so you can only nest a widget inside of that if it uses one mask. ie: I think newButton is alright since it’s all slices - the 3rd would be text on the button. But the tableView wouldn’t be able to fit something using two elements.

I’m not sure which widgets use two masking elements (container+text) apart from scrollView/tableView, so I guess we would have to look through those for potential troublespots.

#30

I’ve discovered this problem when I upgraded to the latest version of Corona today. Would someone please provide a code snippet to show how to use the graphics.newMask() to create it and :setMask() on the TableView?

This is for a custom shape mask.

Thanks!

#31

It’s pretty simple.

  1. You need a mask image; everything in white is visible, everything in black is cut out. 

  2. Instantiate the mask.

[lua]local myMask = graphics.newMask(“themask.png”)[/lua]

  1. Provided your scrollView object exists, you can set the mask on it.

[lua]myScrollView:setMask(myMask)[/lua]

#32

Thanks so much. I did get that to work, but now I have a new problem. My category background color and lines are not showing up. Did this change as well?

#33

I see how the colors changed. This is going to be a major overhaul. Just when I thought I was done coding for a while. What a pain!!!

#34

Hi @staytoooned,

For colors, perhaps the easiest way to “convert” from the old range to the new range is to just add “/255” after your color settings. For example:

[lua]

object:setFillColor( 240/255, 40/255, 60/255 )

[/lua]

Brent

#35

It is - although when you’ve got over 100 text or filled images in each app, and nearly 20 apps to update,  it’s still a right pain.

I wish you could’ve just allowed decimal places on the old 0-255 range and converted this to 0-1 behind the scenes!

#36

I understand all that, but now all my scrollViews are not display at all. Was there a major change here too?

#37

Hi @staytooned,

This is odd, and I’d have to see some code to figure out why they’re not showing up at all.

Thanks,

Brent

#38

Found another huge issue with Graphics 2.0 latest build. I created a scrollView and I want some objects to be added to the scrollView group. This caused my scrollView not to appear. Is there a work around for this? Thanks.

#39

@staytooned, are you needing features of Graphics 2.0 or just upgrading to get the latest bug fixes and such?  For your existing apps, you can simply put:

graphicsCompatibility = 1

in your config.lua where you set your width and your app should run pretty much unmodified.

Rob