Trying to add display.newImageRect to a group

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

I have the following code that worked perfectly fine as:

local screenGroup = self.view splashimage = display.newImage( "splash.jpg" ) screenGroup:insert( splashimage )  

and when I tried to change to:

local screenGroup = self.view splashimage = display.newImageRect( "splash.jpg" ) screenGroup:insert( splashimage )  

it horribly spits out some obtuse error about a table.

ERROR: table expected. If this is a function call, you might have used ‘.’ instead of ‘:’

(referencing the last line)…which makes no sense to me but I suppose someone else has an idea.

From the docs and online it looks like it should work.

Frustrated, can anyone help?

cheers!

#2

You need to also pass in width and height as arguments to newImageRect dude. Check out http://docs.coronalabs.com/api/library/display/newImageRect.htmlRich

#3

You are spot on. Another forum post here was marked as solved and didn’t note that key piece of info. I have called out the other post as its not a very good thing to reference. Thank you so much!

#4

No problem mate. Error messages in Corona are pretty obscure at the best of times!

#5

You need to also pass in width and height as arguments to newImageRect dude. Check out http://docs.coronalabs.com/api/library/display/newImageRect.htmlRich

#6

You are spot on. Another forum post here was marked as solved and didn’t note that key piece of info. I have called out the other post as its not a very good thing to reference. Thank you so much!

#7

No problem mate. Error messages in Corona are pretty obscure at the best of times!