If anyone knows how, can you put a sample up that illustrates grabbing news for the app that has been posted using the cloud interface.
I have my user interface set up so that the user clicks on News and a window pops up to display the news items.
I haven’t been successful in hacking at it until it works, so a simple sample would help me out a lot.
Corona, your example docs don’t need to be masterpieces… please release more guides
Got it working*ish.
I’m using widgetcandy, but you should be able to get the idea from what I’ve got here.
I’ve been able to access the ._id, and .title so far. I’ll keep digging, hopping that .content and .image are the other two parts, but there has to be a date stored as well in there.
[lua]
local newsView = function ()
print(“newsView called”)
--EVENT LISTENER
function ccNews( event )
if ( event.type == “News” ) then
print( “Get News successful” )
--event.results = table of values related to scores
local results = event.results
local maxNews = #results
if ( maxNews > 3 ) then maxNews = 3 end --get maximum of 3 news items
local yOffset = 20
for i = 1, maxNews do
local text = results[i].title – results[i]._id
_G.GUI.NewLabel(
{
x = “5%”,
y = yOffset,
scale = _G.GUIScale,
name = “newsItem” … i,
theme = “theme_3”,
parentGroup = “newsWin”,
width = “90%”,
caption = text,
textAlign = “left”,
} )
yOffset = yOffset + 50
end
end
end
Runtime:addEventListener( “News”, ccNews )
– CREATE A WINDOW
_G.GUI.NewWindow(
{
x = “center”,
y = “center”,
scale = _G.GUIScale,
parentGroup = nil,
width = “95%”,
height = “95%”,
theme = “theme_3”,
name = “newsWin”,
caption = “Game News”,
textAlign = “center”,
modal = true,
shadow = true,
closeButton = true,
dragX = false,
dragY = false,
onClose = function(EventData)
– clear news window
_G.GUI.GetHandle(“newsWin”):destroy()
end,
} )
– Get the news
coronaCloud.getNews()
end
[/lua]
…
Try something like this though I haven’t tested it. You can add this to a for loop easily to get all stories, though I have focussed it on the 1st news story. To access the image filename for your news story you need to use .image_file_name
local function shownews(stories) local newsdash = display.newRect(50,200,200,100) newsdash.newstitle= {} newsdash.newstitle[1]= display.newText(stories[1].title,60,220,180,0,native.systemFont,14) newsdash.newstitle[1]:setTextColor(0,0,128) newsdash.newsstory= {} newsdash.newsstory[1]= display.newText(stories[1].text,60,240,180,0,native.systemFont,12) newsdash.newsstory[1]:setTextColor(0) local dateString = stories[1].updated\_at local pattern = "(%d+)%-(%d+)%-(%d+)" local year, month, day = dateString:match( pattern ) newsdash.newstime = display.newText(month.."/"..day.."/"..year,60,205,180,0,native.systemFont,10) newsdash.newstime:setTextColor(0) end local function newsconnect ( event) if event.type == "News" then local newsresultstable = event.results shownews(newsresultstable) end end Runtime:addEventListener( "News", newsconnect)Hey icyspark,
we must have been posting at the same time ;)
the code I posted is working for me
so .content does not give you the content of the news item…
Haha yes, though hopefully you can get the extra content ie date and image name from my post
It’s .text for the content and .updated_at or .created_at for the date/time of post
yep, that’s working now
ty
Also for getting all the info you need set
coronaCloudController.debugEnabled = true
in the corona-cloud-core.lua
It prints out to the console all the properties etc, so it will make your life much easier
that sounds great,
but, I haven’t been able to log in using the simulator.
I have to keep building and sending it to a device to test, which leaves me with zilch for feedback.
Maybe I’m doing something wrong.
Can I hard code the login creds and the simulator will log on, I thought I got a network error when I tried something like that last week.
On windows system if that matters, probably does…
I’ll give it a shot tomorrow
err…
that worked fine
ye I just hardcoded my email and password, then ran
coronaCloud.loginAPI( email, password)
so you can test on simulator
Got it working*ish.
I’m using widgetcandy, but you should be able to get the idea from what I’ve got here.
I’ve been able to access the ._id, and .title so far. I’ll keep digging, hopping that .content and .image are the other two parts, but there has to be a date stored as well in there.
[lua]
local newsView = function ()
print(“newsView called”)
--EVENT LISTENER
function ccNews( event )
if ( event.type == “News” ) then
print( “Get News successful” )
--event.results = table of values related to scores
local results = event.results
local maxNews = #results
if ( maxNews > 3 ) then maxNews = 3 end --get maximum of 3 news items
local yOffset = 20
for i = 1, maxNews do
local text = results[i].title – results[i]._id
_G.GUI.NewLabel(
{
x = “5%”,
y = yOffset,
scale = _G.GUIScale,
name = “newsItem” … i,
theme = “theme_3”,
parentGroup = “newsWin”,
width = “90%”,
caption = text,
textAlign = “left”,
} )
yOffset = yOffset + 50
end
end
end
Runtime:addEventListener( “News”, ccNews )
– CREATE A WINDOW
_G.GUI.NewWindow(
{
x = “center”,
y = “center”,
scale = _G.GUIScale,
parentGroup = nil,
width = “95%”,
height = “95%”,
theme = “theme_3”,
name = “newsWin”,
caption = “Game News”,
textAlign = “center”,
modal = true,
shadow = true,
closeButton = true,
dragX = false,
dragY = false,
onClose = function(EventData)
– clear news window
_G.GUI.GetHandle(“newsWin”):destroy()
end,
} )
– Get the news
coronaCloud.getNews()
end
[/lua]
…
Try something like this though I haven’t tested it. You can add this to a for loop easily to get all stories, though I have focussed it on the 1st news story. To access the image filename for your news story you need to use .image_file_name
local function shownews(stories) local newsdash = display.newRect(50,200,200,100) newsdash.newstitle= {} newsdash.newstitle[1]= display.newText(stories[1].title,60,220,180,0,native.systemFont,14) newsdash.newstitle[1]:setTextColor(0,0,128) newsdash.newsstory= {} newsdash.newsstory[1]= display.newText(stories[1].text,60,240,180,0,native.systemFont,12) newsdash.newsstory[1]:setTextColor(0) local dateString = stories[1].updated\_at local pattern = "(%d+)%-(%d+)%-(%d+)" local year, month, day = dateString:match( pattern ) newsdash.newstime = display.newText(month.."/"..day.."/"..year,60,205,180,0,native.systemFont,10) newsdash.newstime:setTextColor(0) end local function newsconnect ( event) if event.type == "News" then local newsresultstable = event.results shownews(newsresultstable) end end Runtime:addEventListener( "News", newsconnect)Hey icyspark,
we must have been posting at the same time ;)
the code I posted is working for me
so .content does not give you the content of the news item…
Haha yes, though hopefully you can get the extra content ie date and image name from my post
It’s .text for the content and .updated_at or .created_at for the date/time of post
yep, that’s working now
ty
Also for getting all the info you need set
coronaCloudController.debugEnabled = true
in the corona-cloud-core.lua
It prints out to the console all the properties etc, so it will make your life much easier