Hi,

It doesn't work (at least on my computer !). I have downloaded from Github, unzipped and tested in simulator.

attempt to perform arithmetic on a string value....

Does anybody else made a test ?

Sure

Copyright (C) 2009-2011 A n s c a , I n c .
Version: 2.0.0
Build: 2011.704
The file sandbox for this project is located at the following folder:
(/Users/jch/Library/Application Support/Corona Simulator/sunmils-corona_sdk_wrapper-class-02ed811-30264F6FCC7D60317DBCC2B84CC9C990)
Runtime error
?:0: attempt to perform arithmetic on a string value
stack traceback:
[C]: ?
?: in function 'newRetinaText'
...sunmils-corona_sdk_wrapper-class-02ed811/wrapper.lua:92: in function 'newParagraph'
...NA/sunmils-corona_sdk_wrapper-class-02ed811/main.lua:10: in main chunk
Runtime error: ?:0: attempt to perform arithmetic on a string value
stack traceback:
[C]: ?
?: in function 'newRetinaText'
...sunmils-corona_sdk_wrapper-class-02ed811/wrapper.lua:92: in function 'newParagraph'
...NA/sunmils-corona_sdk_wrapper-class-02ed811/main.lua:10: in main chunk

I will test ASAP.

Some reasons that can explain things:

I'm still on iOS 4 (for company reasons I have too keep my iPhone 4 with iOS 4. We have iPhones 4S with iOS 5 I will also test)

I'm using Corona build 704

I'm using French iOS (frog enabled one :o))

Hi again. I have a small problem though...
If I try to wrap a long text without spaces like this for example:

text = "Corona'sframeworkdramaticallyincreaseproductivity.TaskslikeanimatingobjectsinOpenGL"

then the wrapper doesn't split it up into separate lines.
I tried to modify your code to force a line break when max width is reached but couldn't figure it out.

How would I do that? Thanks again!

Sorry didn't see that Nr. 2
I need both kinds of line break...
I will let you know if I come up with some kind of solution.

Hi,

Is there a way to remove the text from object?

for example. i want to have dynamic text, which will update, i want to be able to change the text and not just add to it. is it possible with this?

Thanks,
Chris.

Thanks, it is so very useful, and works with all the parameters you'd expect from a native multi line text object.

done!

I hadn't even noticed this button before ? What does it do? Does it give a better rating in the search result, or what is it ?

Wow, awesome wrapper. It worked like a charm with no hassle! Thank you so much for sharing, and yes, I liked it too!

Naomi

Urrm, @sunmils, I just noticed that this class works fine on iPhone, but goes haywire on iPhone4 and iPad on simulator. (Same appears to be true with the device.) I'm using daily build 706.

Naomi

For my part, i'm using this class on an iPhone build installed on iPad 2, and it works as intended...Haven't tried an iPad specific or universal build though...

This code works for me but its excruciatingly slow. I am not doing anything crazy, with it, using the basic example code with the rect behind the text.

Does anyone else find it slow? Am I doing anything wrong?

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local _W = display.contentWidth
local _H = display.contentHeight
 
myParagraph = Wrapper:newParagraph({
        text = "Lorem ipsum sorem delet the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.",
        width = display.contentWidth*.8,
        height = display.contentHeight*.4,                      -- fontSize will be calculated automatically if set 
        font = "helvetica",     -- make sure the selected font is installed on your system
        --fontSize = 14,
        --lineSpace = 5,
        alignment  = "center"
})
myParagraph:setReferencePoint(display.TopCenterReferencePoint)
myParagraph.x = _W/2
myParagraph.y = 50
myParagraph:setTextColor({0,0,0})
myParagraph.alpha=.65
 
rect = display.newRoundedRect(0,0,myParagraph.width+15, myParagraph.height+15, 15 )
rect:setReferencePoint(display.CenterReferencePoint)
rect.x = _W/2
rect.y = 50+myParagraph.height/2
rect:setFillColor(0,0,0)
rect.alpha=0.2
--rect:setStrokeColor(255,200)
--rect.strokeWidth = 1  
 
myParagraph:toFront()
rect:toFront()

@sunmils, thank you for looking into this. I'm glad to hear you've identified the issue I saw. From what you noted above, with the latest fix, I assume left alignment works perfectly fine with the content scaling.

Thanks again!
Naomi

That is awesome, @sunmils! Thank you for taking the time to fix the content scaling issue and adding the line-break!! I can't wait to try it out.

Cheers!
Naomi

My code is still very slow. I have removed what I pasted above and my project is now 500% faster at least.

When I test on lower resolution devices it seems to be a bit better, but perhaps it has to do with my large font size? I cant see anything I am doing differently from the example.

Does anyone have any suggestion?

@sunmils

Thanks for your help. I have submitted a modification via github pull request, based on your suggestion, which now allows me to start higher and increment as I need to (based on detected screen size, i can guess a number that is close enough..)

I use the code like this and now it works great! Thanks!!

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local _W = display.contentWidth
                local _H = display.contentHeight
 
                myParagraph = Wrapper:newParagraph({
                        text = "Lorem ipsum sorom delet blah...",
                        width = display.contentWidth*.8,
                        height = display.contentHeight*.4,                      -- fontSize will be calculated automatically if set 
                        font = "helvetica",     -- make sure the selected font is installed on your system
                        fontSizeMin     = 72,
                        incrementSize = 3,
                        --fontSize = 14,
                        --lineSpace = 5,
                        alignment  = "center"
                })
                myParagraph:setReferencePoint(display.TopCenterReferencePoint)
                myParagraph.x = _W/2
                myParagraph.y = 50
                myParagraph:setTextColor({0,0,0})
                myParagraph.alpha=.65

@sunmils, a quick note to let you know that the text wrapper class works as expected on iPad3 (retina). Thanks again for sharing this class!

Cheers,
Naomi

I have to display a long text with 1600 words (3 pages A4). I am also using scrollview.lua
The pages is being displayed with delay (up to 6 seconds!).
Has anyone a workaround?

Fotis

Thank you sunmils for the reply!
I tried the the newText wrap feature, bu the proble is that it cannot has height greater to 2048.
So, I had to split the text and put one sentence (display.newText object) after the other.
The problem is that corona seems not to calculate correctly the coordinates, when you use scale in config. the spaces between the sentences are not the same for different devices with different size of display (screen).
What's your opinion?

Thank you for your efforts!

I red all the comments above.
Did anyone need to setText or text setter?
I think they should be in wrapper.lua.