Regarding corona "viewer" features

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#1

Hi,

looked everywhere but can’t find the awnser to this. Is there a viewer app for corona like there is in gamesalad ? if your not familiar with the feature heres a link to it http://gamesalad.com/products ? It allows you to quickly test any changes live on the device… if you can’t do this, do you have to do it by adhoc builds every time ?

Also not really a features question but coming to this new what is the commonly used text editor for corona ? i know you can use notepad ++ and stuff. But just wandered what the one everyone use for editing lua ?

cheers

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#2

Hi Sam…

Welcome!

So…Corona does have a “previewer” also and even better in my opinion! That is called Corona Simulator and it does have a Debugger and a Terminal for seeing whats is going on at the momment your code is running. Sure Corona is amazing. PS: The Corona viewer can simulate the real device and even better you can build for the Xcode and simulate your app there as it was in a real device…and if not satisfied just build for your real device.

About the Editor…that`s a very personal opinion and I think everyone has one…btw I love to edit my code using one of the most popular code editor that is called BBedit (its paid) but one “little brother” of this software is the “TextWrangler” (freeware) and also nice tool IMO.
See yah,
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#3

@sam32, you are using windows, I am using a mac (not getting into which is better kind of a discussion here) so the tools that you use will be different to the ones that I use. I have used Notepad++ when it was first released for other languages.

As Rodrigo said, the corona simulator is much faster, but you cannot test it on your device. To do so, you need to have an apple developers certificate and the app on the phone will say that it is a trial version at the start. So if you want to check every little thing like positioning an element, then the simulator will do a great job, but if you need to test the sensitivity of the accelerometer and adjust that, you need to deploy it to the device.

cheers,

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