Hi there,
I’m evaluating Corona for a possible ebook project. I’ve some question.
As a first proof of principle, I tried to implement a simple text layout algorithm, measuring text objects and arranging them into lines. For my simple example, this worked, but will it be fast enough for pages (iPad) full text? Unfortunately, it seems, there’s no way to implement a page flip animation like with iBook. So I would probably have to use a simple horizontal slide to switch pages and therefore need to layout at least two pages of text at the same time and move all text objects smoothly. Or is there a better way to achieve this? Can I, for example, render text (with different fonts) into a bitmap and animate that bitmap?
I’d have to access the user’s photo gallery. Is there a way to do this with Corona? I have the requirement that the user can choose an avatar image from his/her photo gallery. So, if there’s no easy way, this would be a show stopper, unfortunately.
I read somewhere that images larger than the screen size are impossible. Is this still correct? I’d need to allow the user to zoom into images so I need to display them with 10% or 25% scaling and then animate to 100%.
Is there an upper limit for the number of images I can use. For a book with 64 pages, each page being 1-5 MB, does Corona need to load every resource or will it automatically free memory of pages not shown (assuming, I remove all image objects correctly)?
Stefan [import]uid: 50217 topic_id: 8582 reply_id: 308582[/import]