Hello, my widget buttons label is not showing live data from user.json. In facto none of my text labels are showing live data.
I am making a pen clicking simulator. I have the widget library included it is just not shown in my code here.
I have no scenes just main.lua and other data files and other things.
I need help where it says “–This is not updating live”:
btnClick = widget.newButton { width = 31, height = 52, defaultFile = "images/"..user.penLevel.."/penCap.png", overFile = "images/"..user.penLevel.."/penCapOver.png", font = font, fontSize = 14, labelColor = {default={0,0,0},over={0,0,0}}, labelYOffset = -350, label = "Pen Clicks: " ..user.penClicks, --This is not updating live onEvent = onPenClick,
Here is my code:
-- set up a saved file for our user user = loadsave.loadTable("user.json") if(user == nil) then user = {} user.clicks = 100 user.penLevel = 0 user.penLevelMax = 10 user.penClicks = 0 user.playsound = true loadsave.saveTable(user, "user.json") end --call local function local function onPenClick(event) if(event.phase == "ended") then audio.play(click) user.penClicks = user.penClicks + 1 loadsave.saveTable(user, "user.json") user = loadsave.loadTable("user.json") end end -- Game start local bg = display.newImageRect("images/bg.png", 800, 1400) bg.x = display.contentCenterX bg.y = display.contentCenterY loadsave.saveTable(user, "user.json") user = loadsave.loadTable("user.json") --Pen Level Text local penLevelText = display.newText( "Pen Level: " .. user.penLevel, 0, 0, font, 14 ) penLevelText:setFillColor( 0, 0, 0 ) penLevelText.anchorX = 0.5 penLevelText.x = display.contentCenterX penLevelText.y = 40 loadsave.saveTable(user, "user.json") user = loadsave.loadTable("user.json") --pen images/levels local penLevelImage = display.newImageRect("images/0/pen.png", 55, 365) penLevelImage.x = display.contentCenterX penLevelImage.y = display.contentCenterY btnClick = widget.newButton { width = 31, height = 52, defaultFile = "images/"..user.penLevel.."/penCap.png", overFile = "images/"..user.penLevel.."/penCapOver.png", font = font, fontSize = 14, labelColor = {default={0,0,0},over={0,0,0}}, labelYOffset = -350, label = "Pen Clicks: " ..user.penClicks, onEvent = onPenClick, } btnClick.x = display.contentCenterX btnClick.y = display.contentCenterY if (user.penLevel \> 0) then penLevelImage:removeSelf() end --[[if (user.penClicks \>= 20) then if (user.penLevel \> 0) then user.penLevel = user.penLevel + 1 penLevelImage:removeSelf() end end]] return main
Basically my question is, is it possible to update a text string live? If so how?