WidgetDemo scaling in Corona Simulator is horribly broken :(

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#1

Hello folks,

Just ran Corona for the first time, and I’m not seeing on my screen what I should be seeing, to be exact, the WidgetDemo in Corona Simulator doesn’t look like it does in the YouTube video.  The scaling is way off and everything is tiny.  I haven’t touched any code, I just need to see the demo work right before I do any work myself.  When sample code doesn’t work like it should, we are definitely not off to a good start.

I got the 2014.2511 build because that’s what the download link at the top of the main page points to.  I don’t know if I’m supposed to be using daily builds or not.

Following the posting guidelines, here are the bullet points:

  • I was trying the WidgetDemo sample code
  • I was expecting it would look like the YouTube demo
  • Instead everything is uselessly small, scaled wrong and doesn’t look like it does on YouTube
  • SDK version 2014.2511, Windows 7 SP1

The demo on YouTube (I expect to see the same, at the very least):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbjPv7jmbHk

Seeing is believing:

corona.png

So what’s the fix?  Or is this build just broken and I should get another version?  Which version?

Thanks in advance.

#2

I would recommend you visit the Daily Build pages (See Daily Builds at the top of the screen) and download 2015.2602 and give that a try.  Build 2603 have an issue using plugins with Android devices that our engineers are working to solve.

I ran the demo on my Windows 8 machine with a later daily build that 2511 and it worked as you would expect to see.  Try with 2602 and lets see if you still have the problem.  If so we will investigate more.

Rob

#3

Installed 2015.2602.  The result was:  :wacko:

So this is what it looks like:

corona_2015.2602.png

This repeatedly reproduces by doing the following:

  • Open WidgetDemo in Corona Simulator 2015.2602
  • Click any row in TableView
  • Or just wait a few seconds, it will blow up all on it’s own

Well, at least it scales better now… :huh:

#4

When you started the simulator, there should have been another command windows start with it.  Are there any error messages there?

#5 
Windows simulator build date: Apr 1 2015 @ 02:22:59 Copyright (C) 2009-2015 C o r o n a L a b s I n c . Version: 3.0.0 Build: 2015.2602 Platform: GT-I9300 / x64 / 6.1 / GeForce GTX 770/PCIe/SSE2 / 4.5.0 NVIDIA 347.25 / 2015.2602 Loading project from: c:\program files (x86)\corona labs\corona sdk\sample cod e\interface\widgetdemo Project sandbox folder: C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Corona Labs\Corona Simulator\Sandbox\widgetdemo-DE87993A3C052D3CF2402CA6A7DDFD90\Documents WARNING: display.setStatusBarMode() not supported in the simulator for GT-I9300 device

No errors, just the one warning.  Shows this when the demo runs, and no new messages are written before or after the crash.

Now I feel like an April fool.  :frowning:

#6

I started coding so…  It looks like  onRowTouch  causes the blowup of the Simulator in build 2015.2602.

Let me know the status of the fix.

Thanks.

[EDIT]

Nevermind, the Simulator from 2015.2602 randomly blows up without onRowTouch also.  2014.2511 doesn’t do that, but that build has a severe scaling problem.

#7

Why not grab the latest daily build and try that.  There is a known issue with plugins, but the widget library has the most up to date fixes in it.  If you’re not to the point of needing plugins yet, then you can do a lot of development.  Hopefully we will get the plugin bug on Android fixed in the next few days.

Rob

#8

I would recommend you visit the Daily Build pages (See Daily Builds at the top of the screen) and download 2015.2602 and give that a try.  Build 2603 have an issue using plugins with Android devices that our engineers are working to solve.

I ran the demo on my Windows 8 machine with a later daily build that 2511 and it worked as you would expect to see.  Try with 2602 and lets see if you still have the problem.  If so we will investigate more.

Rob

#9

Installed 2015.2602.  The result was:  :wacko:

So this is what it looks like:

corona_2015.2602.png

This repeatedly reproduces by doing the following:

  • Open WidgetDemo in Corona Simulator 2015.2602
  • Click any row in TableView
  • Or just wait a few seconds, it will blow up all on it’s own

Well, at least it scales better now… :huh:

#10

When you started the simulator, there should have been another command windows start with it.  Are there any error messages there?

#11 
Windows simulator build date: Apr 1 2015 @ 02:22:59 Copyright (C) 2009-2015 C o r o n a L a b s I n c . Version: 3.0.0 Build: 2015.2602 Platform: GT-I9300 / x64 / 6.1 / GeForce GTX 770/PCIe/SSE2 / 4.5.0 NVIDIA 347.25 / 2015.2602 Loading project from: c:\program files (x86)\corona labs\corona sdk\sample cod e\interface\widgetdemo Project sandbox folder: C:\Users\[username]\AppData\Roaming\Corona Labs\Corona Simulator\Sandbox\widgetdemo-DE87993A3C052D3CF2402CA6A7DDFD90\Documents WARNING: display.setStatusBarMode() not supported in the simulator for GT-I9300 device

No errors, just the one warning.  Shows this when the demo runs, and no new messages are written before or after the crash.

Now I feel like an April fool.  :frowning:

#12

I started coding so…  It looks like  onRowTouch  causes the blowup of the Simulator in build 2015.2602.

Let me know the status of the fix.

Thanks.

[EDIT]

Nevermind, the Simulator from 2015.2602 randomly blows up without onRowTouch also.  2014.2511 doesn’t do that, but that build has a severe scaling problem.

#13

Why not grab the latest daily build and try that.  There is a known issue with plugins, but the widget library has the most up to date fixes in it.  If you’re not to the point of needing plugins yet, then you can do a lot of development.  Hopefully we will get the plugin bug on Android fixed in the next few days.

Rob