CATEGORY: Lua

Corona SDK: Avoid touch events through layered screens

August 8, 2011 by Haakon Langaas Lageng

This trick is really handy. If you ever find yourself struggling with layered screens and touch events propagating through the screen in front, triggering something on the screen behind, you'll soon know a really simple way to solve it...

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Creating an RSS and JSON driven app with Corona SDK

April 26, 2011 by Haakon Langaas Lageng

While working on the Nyhetene app, an app that gathers more than 100 different rss feeds, we faced a few challenges that needed to be solved. Our biggest issues were related to loading external data, like rss feeds and json data, loading remote images, and displaying the results in a proper manner. We have solved problems related to parsing non US characters and the app crashing when asynch image loading returns. Monkeybin believes in clean, readable code, where logic is separated from display, so this series will follow some trusted OOP patterns to achieve that.

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Corona SDK, Lua, and Programming