Big news for the Windows Simulator!!!

13 August 2015

Big news for the Windows Simulator!!!

Rob Miracle
Daily Build

Our Engineering team did something really big today. We now support the native.newTextField() and native.newTextBox() APIs on the Windows simulator. And as a side benefit Windows desktop builds will also get text fields now.

There are a couple of caveats. It does not support transparency via “alpha” or “hasBackground” properties, but as of daily build 2015.2695, you can test your input in the Windows Simulator.

Go grab the build today! https://developer.coronalabs.com/downloads/daily-builds/

Rob Miracle

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Rob is the Developer Relations Manager for Corona Labs. Besides being passionate about helping other developers make great games using Corona, he is also enjoys making games in his spare time. Rob has been coding games since 1979 from personal computers to mainframes. He has over 16 years professional experience in the gaming industry.

17 Comments

Infuse Dreams
Posted at 03:47h, 14 August

Excellent work Corona team!
lieo
Posted at 04:35h, 14 August

yata, great update !
Larry Meadows
Posted at 08:38h, 14 August

That is awesome news !! I Love it!!!

Great Job guys.

Larry
Larry Meadows
Posted at 08:54h, 14 August

does this mean that the native text that we add to lists are more responsive ?

I have an app i have been developing for all mobile platforms and windows lags behind the others with the scrolling lists because of the text.

thanks

Larry
- Joshua Quick
  Posted at 17:26h, 14 August
  
  Larry, are you referring to Windows Phone 8? If so, then it’s not related. This is a new feature we’ve added to the Windows desktop, which affects the Windows Corona Simulator and Win32 desktop apps.
Ed Maurina
Posted at 09:36h, 14 August

Good job Team! Glad to see you guys got this working.

Of course Jason and I are now a little sad (not really). 🙂
Nicolas Michaud
Posted at 05:32h, 15 August

You are the best.

Thank you
Nick
pasidaips
Posted at 19:06h, 20 August

wohoo that is something awesome, seriously 😀 was doing app with basically textfields like 2 months ago and it took me considerable time to do it due to having to do extra irrelevant work… thanks!
RuneW
Posted at 22:57h, 20 August

Great news of course. But to be honest, this should have been supported from day one.
Ming
Posted at 05:16h, 21 August

Cool!!

One problem here. I can’t change my text field’s font and font size and all. eg. I use

myField = native.newTextField(160, 300, 200, 50)
myField.fontSize = 15

But no difference with

myField = native.newTextField(160, 300, 200, 50)
myField.fontSize = 3

Any guide on it?
- Ming
  Posted at 05:29h, 21 August
  
  Oops. Just realized that I need to use “.size” instead of “.fontSize”. Sorry!
Ming
Posted at 05:26h, 21 August

Also, the position of my textfield differs in composer and non-composer app.

In non-composer app:
myField = native.newTextField(w/2, h/2, 100, 30)

the text field appears to be in the center.

In composer app:
myField = native.newTextField(w/2, h/2, 100, 30)

the text field appears to be in the bottom right corner. In order to make it center, I need to use:

myField = native.newTextField(w/4, h/4, 100, 30)

Please fix this bug! And for sure, thank you for making it testable in Windows Simulator.

Ming
- Ming
  Posted at 06:25h, 21 August
  
  okay there was a little prob in my config.lua and I’ve changed it. everything is fine now!
Ming
Posted at 06:31h, 21 August

sorry for the spam. There is one more problem that I found after the update. My text font got all the same.

For instance, I got 10 lines of text, all using display.newText
All are “Arial”
When line 5 is “Arial Bold”, line 6 onwards changed to Arial Bold as well.
Same thing happens when line 2 is bold, line 2 onwards is bold
tnismmile
Posted at 03:05h, 22 August

great update !
Rob Vermeulen
Posted at 14:26h, 22 August

this made my day! But why on earth did it take so long to support this?
Joan
Posted at 09:01h, 24 August

Nice one!