Web Pop up closing when link is pressed

Solar2D iOS
#1

I’m having an issue with the web popup.

Right now when a user reaches a certain point in our app, they can tap on an image which opens a web popup with our mobile site in it so they can view more details about a product.

The issue is, and it seems to be iOS only, when they click any of the mobile sites navigation links too fast(double tap) the web popup closes. if they wait for the page to load fully, they can click links fine. 

here’s the initializing code, though I don’t think it matters much:

local web =  native.showWebPopup( 0, display.topStatusBarContentHeight, viewableScreenW, viewableScreenH, URL)

Any ideas?

#2

What version of Corona SDK are you using?

Rob

#3

Version 2014.2146 (2014.1.16)

#4

From what I can tell, this only happens to links that are surrounded with <a> tags. Our buttons that initiate JS don’t trigger the web view to close.
So is it something related to a request being sent to the web pop up when the web pop up is in the middle of processing a request perhaps?

If so, is there anything I can do to get around that on the app side?

#5

We made changes to native.newWebView in build 2174 that dealt with crashes from trying to cancel it while it’s was still loading.  Perhaps changes there fixed this issue.  Please try with 2174 or later and see if this is addressed.

Thanks

Rob

#6

Sorry, I said web view but I meant web popup. However, I did upgrade to the latest daily build and switched over to web views and those are working fine, though on iOS there is a flicker when links are double tapped. Web popups still suffer the same issue where double clicking links closes the web view. So my problem is solved, but you guys might want to look into that. Thanks for the assist.

#7

What version of Corona SDK are you using?

Rob

#8

Version 2014.2146 (2014.1.16)

#9

From what I can tell, this only happens to links that are surrounded with <a> tags. Our buttons that initiate JS don’t trigger the web view to close.
So is it something related to a request being sent to the web pop up when the web pop up is in the middle of processing a request perhaps?

If so, is there anything I can do to get around that on the app side?

#10

We made changes to native.newWebView in build 2174 that dealt with crashes from trying to cancel it while it’s was still loading.  Perhaps changes there fixed this issue.  Please try with 2174 or later and see if this is addressed.

Thanks

Rob

#11

Sorry, I said web view but I meant web popup. However, I did upgrade to the latest daily build and switched over to web views and those are working fine, though on iOS there is a flicker when links are double tapped. Web popups still suffer the same issue where double clicking links closes the web view. So my problem is solved, but you guys might want to look into that. Thanks for the assist.