WebPopup Disappears- Urgent Request

willk4 · May 30, 2011, 12:23am

Hi,

If you cancel a native WebPopup before it loads then try to load a new webpopup, nothing appears (black). This is a major issue as there is no way to tell if the webpopup has loaded properly, and is particularly bad on low or intermittent signal.

Also, the webpopup flashes until the page is fully loaded which looks very unprofessional.

My app is 99% ready for release except for these problems and after weeks of development I’m anxious to get it out there. Would be happy to pay a bit extra to get these problems looked at immediately.

Cheers,

Will Kruss [import]uid: 61273 topic_id: 10649 reply_id: 310649[/import]

peach_pellen · May 30, 2011, 4:25am

Hi Will,

I’ll bring up your concerns in our next meeting

Peach [import]uid: 52491 topic_id: 10649 reply_id: 38691[/import]

willk4 · May 30, 2011, 5:29am

Thanks Peach, hoping your next meeting is soon :-)) [import]uid: 61273 topic_id: 10649 reply_id: 38701[/import]

Ceej · May 30, 2011, 7:24am

Hi there,

I logged as a bug a few weeks ago, it is an issue as makes it impossible to use the Webpopup as people will often want to cancel and it trashes it for subsequent uses in an app session.

Best regards,

Carl [import]uid: 10629 topic_id: 10649 reply_id: 38707[/import]

carlos_m_icaza · May 31, 2011, 11:56am

iOS/Android?

on Android is a known issues on certain devices.

Have not heard similar on iOS.

Do you have more info? Some code to look at?

C [import]uid: 24 topic_id: 10649 reply_id: 38832[/import]

Ceej · May 31, 2011, 1:40pm

Hi there Carlos,

Put an example in with bug 5609 on iOS. Unfortunately on iOS device now so cant post Quite simple to reproduce, have a screen with a Webpopup that covers the screen partially and provide a button with code that cancels the Webpopup using the native functionality and click cancel before it’s finished downloading a page, then it starts misbehaving. If you leave to finish downloading everything is fine.

Best regards,

Carl [import]uid: 10629 topic_id: 10649 reply_id: 38840[/import]

willk4 · May 31, 2011, 3:33pm

Hey Carlos,

You can reproduce by simply grabbing the webview example (http://mobile.tutsplus.com/tutorials/corona/corona-sdk-webview/) compile for device (iPhone) or Xcode.

Set the URL in main.lua to something that takes a little while to load
Compile for Xcode and ensure the device is iPhone
Click the button to open the webpopup, then while it’s still loading click the back button. Now click the button again to open the webpopup…the popup never appears.

(Note: The tutorial doesn’t work in iPhone4 because the back button is not displayed so in Xcode make sure you have the device set to iPhone.)

My App is 100% ready to submit to the apple store as soon as this and the flashing issue are resolved. I’m hesitant to submit something with bugs in it as it would no doubt affect my applications rating on the store. Particularly as competing apps do not have this issue.

The WebPopup itself needs a complete overhaul as unlike all other SDKs I can find which show a webpage loading (with no flashing), the WebPopup with Corona basically loads most of the webpage behind a loading screen before displaying it…this suggests to me that the flashing issues while pages are loading are very bad early on so the Corona developers decided to display a loading screen in front of it…I may be wrong here. Either way please please please put this as a priority particularly above any Android issues as surely getting native functionality working properly on iPhone should take precedence!!

Will post some screens of my app soon

Cheers,

Will [import]uid: 61273 topic_id: 10649 reply_id: 38854[/import]

willk4 · June 2, 2011, 4:17pm

Hey Peach,

Do you have any ETA on this? I really need some indication for my client and my development schedule.

Thanks,

Will [import]uid: 61273 topic_id: 10649 reply_id: 39228[/import]

jasonshow · June 22, 2011, 12:00am

I got the same problem !

there’r 3 buttons on screen,every button will open a webpopup with a url.
if I press no.1 button, before the web page show and press no.2 button,
it will give me a black screen.

i test it on iphone 3gs.

is there a sample code like this (and works ) ?

thanks. [import]uid: 21680 topic_id: 10649 reply_id: 41846[/import]

jasonshow · June 22, 2011, 12:16pm

can ansca stuff resolve this problem ? [import]uid: 21680 topic_id: 10649 reply_id: 41958[/import]

carlos_m_icaza · June 22, 2011, 12:25pm

stuff? staff?

we are looking into it

c [import]uid: 24 topic_id: 10649 reply_id: 41959[/import]

jasonshow · June 22, 2011, 12:35pm

sorry,i’m almost crazy… [import]uid: 21680 topic_id: 10649 reply_id: 41962[/import]

jasonshow · June 22, 2011, 1:01pm

I think the easy way is , let us change the url of webpopup it has been create on screen. [import]uid: 21680 topic_id: 10649 reply_id: 41967[/import]

jasonshow · June 24, 2011, 2:03pm

hi~

I’m still waiting… [import]uid: 21680 topic_id: 10649 reply_id: 42327[/import]

carlos_m_icaza · June 24, 2011, 2:08pm

just don’t hold your breath

still working

c. [import]uid: 24 topic_id: 10649 reply_id: 42329[/import]

jasonshow · June 24, 2011, 2:14pm

^^
thanks for your help. [import]uid: 21680 topic_id: 10649 reply_id: 42333[/import]

mdcapps · June 30, 2011, 12:07pm

any eta? --need this functionality and also a back button if at all possible. [import]uid: 24641 topic_id: 10649 reply_id: 43272[/import]

Ceej · July 23, 2011, 8:34am

*Resolved*

Hi there,

Just a quick note to say this was fixed in one of last weeks daily builds and with the latest all works as expected, nice one Ansca :o)

Best regards,

Carl [import]uid: 10629 topic_id: 10649 reply_id: 46955[/import]