Solar2D Changelog

What's new in Solar2D 2024.3706

Apr 19, 2024

Android: checking for exact alarms permission before scheduling notifications (#659) (7975411)

New in Solar2D 2024.3703 (Feb 2, 2024)

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New in Solar2D 2017.3184 (Dec 19, 2017)

Corona Native builds are now supported on Windows:
Starting with this build, Windows developers can now use Android Studio to build native based apps including building plugins, linking to native Android libraries similar to the way Mac based users have been able to do for some time.
You will find a new “Native” folder in Corona’s Start menu folder, which has our standard “App” template in it. Copy that folder to your project directory and use “Open an Existing Android Studio project” option with Android Studio.
New Welcome Window:
When you first start Corona you’re presented with a Welcome Window with a list of recent projects, icons to start new projects and open existing projects. This window has been redesigned with a more modern look.
Windows Live Server now supports both Bonjour v2 and v3:
Bonjour is Apple’s library that lets Corona Live Server work on Windows. Until recently, Bonjour v3 was included with the installation of iTunes. However, Apple no longer includes Bonjour with iTunes. The standalone version of Bonjour is version 2. Live Server now can use either v2 or v3 of Bonjour.
Gradient paint now supports arbitrary directions:
Previously you could only set directions like 0, 45, 90 and 180 when constructing a gradient fill using the fill.rotation value. It can now take a number allowing you to have gradients at other angles.
Windows text renderer is rewritten:
Windows text renderer was rewritten to better match other platforms behavior, fixing number of bugs.
Google’s ContentProvider path traversal vulnerability warning:
This public build also contains an update that addresses Corona made apps that get flagged in Google Play with the “ContentProvider path traversal vulnerability” warning. If you’re getting this warning in Google Play, simply rebuild with this version of Corona.
Corona can now use the latest Java:
Corona has been updated to use 64 bit Java installations. You no longer need to install a specific version of Java, just have the latest version installed.

New in Solar2D 2017.3068 (Apr 6, 2017)

Live Builds:
Since Corona Live Builds were introduced, we’ve continued to improve this amazing feature as well as make it available for tvOS and Windows-based Corona Simulator builds. Essentially, live builds allow you to build your project for device(s) just once and then see code/assets update almost instantly on those devices
Simulator and core improvements:
Native web view objects are now available for both the Corona Simulator for Windows and Win32 desktop builds.
The Simulator “Show Project Sandbox” option now opens the actual sandbox folder, not the parent folder one level higher.
Key events are now sent to iOS-based Simulator skins.
The system.getInfo(“platform”) call returns the platform that the Simulator skin represents. For example, if you have an Android skin selected, it will return android instead of macos when run in the Corona Simulator.
When selecting a custom device skin (Window ? View As ? Custom Device…), you can now select the platform to return for system.getInfo(“platform”).
A new system directory, system.ApplicationSupportDirectory, is now available on all platforms except for Windows Phone 8.
New status bar types have been added for display.setStatusBar() which support Android’s modern translucent options, and other improvements around consistency have been implemented.
You can now clear your sandbox files from the Simulator menu.
Both native.newVideo() and media.playVideo() now work in both the Windows and macOS versions of the Corona Simulator.
New API system.getinfo(“manufacturer”).
OS-specific updates:
We dropped support for iOS 6 and 7. The new minimum build target is iOS 8.
Updated to iOS 10.3 — you will need to update to Xcode 8.3.
We added support for Android API level 25 (7.1) and made the minimum supported API level 15 (4.0.3).
Windows devices that support touch screens now generate multi-touch events.
Plugins:
Significant work was done to improve our plugin system. It now supports Android plugin dependencies where different plugins can utilize the correct dependency plugin on a case-by-case basis. In addition, many other features were added to provide better support for plugin developers.

New in Solar2D 2016.2992 (Nov 16, 2016)

Corona Simulator:
Introduction of a new Welcome window. We’ve made useful links more, well, “useful.” You also have a better view of your recent projects.
We now attempt to validate keys and values in build.settings and config.lua. For example, if your app requires a key like FacebookAppId and you enter FaceBookID instead, Corona will alert you that the key isn’t recognized, helping you pinpoint potential issues before you build your app.
With iOS 10, Apple made changes to how they scan submitted apps and, as a result, we now provide default values for the various NSDescription strings required by Apple. If you use these permission-based features, however, we strongly recommend that you provide actual values for these strings.
macOS 10.12, Xcode 8.x, and iOS 10.x brought considerable changes that needed to be reflected in the Simulator and build process. This build of Corona will require you to use Xcode 8.1 since we now default to iOS 10.1 as the primary SDK.
Introduction of Corona live builds (beta) from the Corona Simulator for macOS. These builds are a powerful and efficient way to see exactly how your in-development Corona app will appear on real devices.
New borderless skin for testing the iPad Pro.
The Simulator for macOS now supports the hardware “back” button when you use an Android or WP8 skin — just select Hardware ? Back from the main menu.
Minor improvements to the console log screen introduced in the previous public build.
Core:
Widget picker wheels are now resizable so that you can incorporate them into your UI with much greater flexibility. Keep an eye out for an upcoming announcement which summarizes this addition and other new features.
Improved splash screen controls including per-platform support. You now have the ability to use a unique splash screen image for iOS and another for Android. You can also enable and disable the splash screen for each platform, if desired.
Windows:
Previously, the default behavior for Windows Desktop builds was to allow multiple instances of apps to run. Most apps, in particular games, only allow one version to run at a time. We have changed it so that Windows desktop apps are now single-instance by default. However, if you are building an app that needs multiple instances, this can still be enabled via a build.settings entry (see here for details).
We have improved command line parameter handling for desktop builds and added applicationOpen support to single-instance Win32 desktop apps.

New in Solar2D 2016.2949 (Sep 20, 2016)

Simulators: add missing “Borderless” skin in iPad Pro size
Fixed issue with splash screen code which caused stacktraces to appear for some people when the splash screen was disabled
Core: Fixed crash when custom shader contains empty table. Casenum 5894470
Core: Added ability to read/write custom “app” preferences to storage. See APIs system.getPreference(), system.setPreferences(), and system.deletePreferences()
Android: Fixed a potential crash that can occur when an app with notification permissions is updated to remove said permissions. Casenum 40070
Windows: Fixed bug where “mouse” event would not provide a double right click or double middle click’s 2nd down phase
macOS, Windows: fix issue with app sometimes exiting when a build is requested. No casenum
Core: Fixes crash caused by an out-of-range frame index for Image Sheets when used with display.newImage(). Now it will display a warning message and default to the last frame in the Image Sheet (same behavior as with display.newImageRect()). Casenum: 47013
Physics: Fixed debug draw mode to show the real position of physics bodies in groups that have been scaled or translated. This doesn’t fix the issue with using physics objects in groups but will display the true location of the physics body in relation to the display object. Casenum: 46663
Windows, macOS: display a message in the console if an app closes because native.requestExit() was called. No casenum
Core: fixing new display objects not triggering scene update after display.save()
Updated viewer subrepo to latest version
Core: fixing culling offscreen objects with display.save(). Casenum 43011
Enterprise: fix issue with signing apps. No casenum
iOS: tweaks for iOS 10 beta
Core: fixing crash when using TextureResourceCanvas as mask. Hit testing doesn’t work for these masks
Core: fixing TextureResourceCanvas not invalidating if released in same frame
Core: tweaking warning messages when fill images contain invalid data
Core: fixing containers sometimes affecting masked objects (casenum 46668)
Core: fixing crash when changing masks within frame (casenum 46685)
Windows: Improved clarity of text in top-right corner of the Welcome window (was blurry)
Add total elapsed time to the “build succeeded” line for all build types
OS X, Windows: change build process to download built app directly from S3 to improve build latencies. No casenum
tvOS Enterprise: fixing various issues with bitcode
tvOS: adding native.showPopup(“appStore”); fixing error message for iOS
iOS Enterprise: added CoronaEventDataKey()

New in Solar2D 2016.2906 (Jun 28, 2016)

Core and cross-platform features:
Meshes now supported via display.newMesh().
Several filters and shaders updated to work with transparency.
The system.canOpenURL() API is now available on all platforms.
The network.request() API allows new HTTP verbs to be used. You can use PATCH or other verbs in addition to GET, HEAD, POST, PUT and DELETE.
Addition of a new json.decodeFile() API which reads JSON files and turns them into Lua tables.
New system.newEventDispatcher() API.
The display.newEmitter() and video:load() APIs now let you use directories other than your resource directory.
New APIs for texture management (graphics.newTexture() and graphics.releaseTextures()).
LuaSockets updated to “3.0-rc1” which supports IPv6 and fixes quite a few bugs. This was necessary to update the OpenSSL plugin and meet Apple’s requirements.
Minor improvements to widget.newScrollView().
Updated transition library with minor fixes around pausing, resuming, and cancelling transitions.
Custom fonts can now be loaded simply by file name across all platforms.
Corona Simulator:
High resolution screen support for macOS (retina) and Windows screens (DPI Awareness).
Console improvements.
Updates to file handling for opening projects, including opening directories and dragging files to the Corona Simulator icon to open projects.
native.showAlert() improvements on Windows.
The Corona Simulator now warns you if a plugin is required and needs configuration within build.settings.
You now get warnings in the Corona Simulator when there is a file name mismatch due to case sensitivity.
Android:
Multi-Dex support.
Improvements to Android 6.x permission handling.
Support for Android Studio builds for Enterprise.
Videos can now be loaded from all Corona-defined directories.
Updated libpng to version 1.2.56.
Fixed an issue involving Java-based plugins and applications exiting.
Improvements around licensing support.
iOS:
In-app purchase API store.purchase() can now take a table of item strings or a single item string, just like the similar API for other purchasing platforms.
New lines handled correctly in display.newText().
Improved rendering of large text objects.
Camera fill can now be invalidated more than once per frame.
tvOS:
Support for On-Demand Resources.
Remote handling improvements including “relativeTouch”.
Improved rendering of large text objects.
Windows Phone 8 / Windows 10 Mobile:
Added Visual Studio 2015 and .NET 4.6 support to CoronaCards for Windows Phone.
Windows Desktop:
Easier to run Corona from the command line.
Added support for surround sound audio (5.1 and 7.1).
Support for high resolution screens with “DPI awareness”.
Added the ability to show and hide the mouse using native.setProperty().
Computers with touch screens will now show a virtual keyboard when you interact with native.newTextField() and native.newTextBox().
Better formatting for Corona Simulator error messages.

New in Solar2D 2015.2731 (Oct 8, 2015)

New Features and Bug fixes:
All: Added an error message if native.newTextBox() fails because width or height is zero.
All: Fix issues in handling pausing/resuming of timers. Fix issue where timers would iterate beyond their intended count.
All: Provide error messages to the response field for calls to network.request. Fix a runtime error in network.request on Android. Casenum: 42281.
All: Removed deprecated “credits” module.
All: Removed deprecated ‘storyboard’ module. (Use the Composer API instead.)
Android: Added ability to query system.hasEventSource() for features “inputDeviceStatus”, “key”, and “mouse”. (Always returns true on this platform.)
CoronaCards: Fixed landscape/Portrait orientation issues. Updated canvas scale and swapping dimensions on orientation change. Casenum 42926.
Enterprise: Fixed inclusion of plist entries from build.settings for Enterprise builds: Casenum 43077.
Graphics: Fixed bug where if the app is not using content scaling and no content width/height is defined, then the content will wrongly be zoom stretched when a resize occurs.
Graphics: Fixed children of snapshot should have non-nil parents. Casenum: 40961.
Graphics: Fixed geometry buffer issues. Casenum 40851.
Graphics: Fixed horizontal gradients for rounded rects and circles. Casenum 39683.
Graphics: Fixed object underneath snapshot could accidentally be added to snapshot’s canvas. Casenum: 40225.
Graphics: Fixing hit testing for shapes with wide stroke. Casenum: 31823.
Graphics: making BitmapPaint’s scaleX and scaleY properties to be consistent for accessing and setting them. Casenum 42497.
Physics: Fixed offset rectangular bodies (https://docs.coronalabs.com/api/library/physics/addBody.html#offsetangled-rectangular-body) to correctly calculate the x/y offset. Casenum: 42333.
Physics: Raycasting skips physics objects that have been removed but not yet deleted. Casenum: 42332.
Transitions: Fixing a race condition on transition resume. Casenum 42440.
Tranistions: Fixed issues with transition.resume() and transition.cancel(): Casenums 33326 and 41054
Widgets: Fixed a problem with scrolling tableViews. Casenum 40974.
Windows, OS X: Fixed rare crash when certain kinds of accounts logged in: Casenum 42220.
Windows: [BREAKING CHANGE] Modified system.getPreference() to return localization strings that are much more consistent with OS X, Android, and iOS. Casenum: 1904.
Windows: Added a help [?] button and F1 support to the Corona Simulator “Login”, “Preferences”, “Android Build”, and “Windows Build” dialogs which displays their associated online documentation.
Windows: Added native TextField and TextBox support. (Does not support transparency via “alpha” or “hasBackground” properties.)
Windows: Changed Corona Simulator menu item “Help\Online Documentation” to go to the Guides webpage instead of the API docs page. Pressing F1 on the main simulator window goes to “Guides” as well.
Windows: Enabled Win32 Desktop builds in build menu (2687)
Windows: Fixed bug introduced in build #2646 where some TextField/TextBox properties return the wrong values. (Note that the TextField/TextBox features are not supported, but their stubbed out implementation should work as they did before.) Casenum: 41439.
Windows: Fixed bug where Corona Simulator will fail to launch if preference “Auto open last project” is checked and the last open project cannot be found on the drive. Casenum: 41047.
Windows: Fixed bug where loading an MP3 file on Windows 10 would cause a crash: Casenums: 41702, 41762.
Windows: Fixed bug with display.capture*() APIs where it won’t save to the pictures directory if the path contains unicode characters.
Windows: Fixed Corona Simulator’s “Preferences” dialog so that its labels won’t get clipped when using a large DPI scale factor.
Windows: Fixed default font size which whose height was slightly off by a couple of pixels.
Windows: Fixed line endings for files in the Resources directory (including new project templates).
Windows: Fixed Multiscene template to use the getObjectByName function. Casenum 41053.
Windows: Fixed plugin loading error that can happen if it uses C APIs CoronaLog(), CoronaLuaLogPrefix(), CoronaLuaWarning(), or CoronaLuaError().
Windows: Modified “system.TemporaryDirectory” and “system.CachesDirectory” to not reference the same “tmp” directory, which could cause file collision.
Windows: Modified system.getPreference() to return a locale string using an underscore ‘_’ for the language/country code separate instead of a dash ‘-’ to be consistent with OS X and iOS.
Windows: Moved Corona Simulator’s project sandbox directory from “Roaming” to “Local” under the hidden AppData directory. Prevents sandboxed files from being needlessly synchronized between machines on a Windows domain.
Windows: Re-worded Win32 build plugin error messages to better clarify which plugins are not available and how to resolve it.
Windows: Removed “Min SDK Version” from “Build for Android” dialog in simulator.
Windows: Setting the native activity indicator in the Corona Simulator now also shows a mouse wait cursor. Used to block user input into newly supported native TextField and TextBoxes.
Windows: Updated the Corona SDK’s “Online Documentation” web link installed to the start menu to link to the “Guides” webpage instead of the “API” page.
Windows/WP8: Added ability to query system.hasEventSource() for “mouse”, “key”, and “inputDeviceStatus”.
Windows/WP8: Updated the Corona Labs certifate used to digitally sign Corona SDK and CoronaCards binaries.

New in Solar2D 2014.2511 (Nov 21, 2014)

New in Solar2D 2014.2189 (May 2, 2014)

New Features and Bug fixes:
All: Output a string describing the hardware and software platform the app is running on to aid support
All: Implement "handleRedirects" option for network.request() so that redirects can be handled explicitly if required
Core: Allow long pathnames in Lua error messages and stack traces (fixes issue with "Edit Code" on runtime errors not working with long paths). No casenum.
Core: Fixed bogus lua stack warning. No casenum.
Core: Fixed getTunerVolume(). Casenum: 25702
Core: Fixed hash table warning. No casenum.
Core: Fixed changes to width/height of a rounded rect were not working correctly. Casenum: 28847
Core: Fixed issue where text size incorrect after setting size property to original value. Casenum: 28474
Core: Letterboxed apps in landscape orientation returns the correct actual content width and height. Casenum: 28388
Core/iOS/Audio: Fixes casenum: 30208. Background music from other apps were being stopped when a Corona app launches.
Display: Added alpha support to the “scatter” filter.
Display: Added an “aspectRatio” parameter to “filter.polkaDots”
Display: Added filter.vignetteMask
Display: Added lineObject.anchorSegments
Display: Added support for images suffixes to graphics.newOutline(). Casenum: 30296
Display: Fixed a typo in filter.vignette that broke it on device
Display: Fixed display.save() bug with semi-transparent objects and PNGs. Casenum: 28844
Display: Fixed display.save(). Casenum: 28844
Display: Fixed gradients with alpha values
Display: Fixed sprite animation sequencing. Casenum: 18033
Display: Fixed transparency in filter.invert
Display: Fixed transparency when using display.capture() and a group. Casenum: 29410
Display: Fixed containers and group masks would not properly mask children in certain situations. Casenum: 28872
Display: Fixed issue with masking causing black areas around text
Display: Resolves issue where changing alpha value of off screen object in group does not update correctly. Casenum: 29332, 28784
Mac/Win: Fixed annoying deprecated warning message that occurs when the Simulator detects a Lua syntax error
Mac/Win: Fixed issue with build error for Amazon and Nook. Casenum: 29976
Mac/Win: Handle build errors more gracefully. No casenum.
Mac/Win: Remove Simulator Warning Messages (Mac and Windows). Casenum: 29476
Mac/Win: Remove unnecessary platform message for Simulator windows; fix erroneous display.setStatusBarMode() error in Simulator windows. Casenum: 29685
Physics: Added Png2Box2D support for ImageSheets
Physics: Prevent adding physic bodies to lines
Transition 2.0: Added delta treatment for transition.from. Casemum: 26629
Transition 2.0: Fixed issue with easing.continuousLoop malforming the object properties on iteration end. Casenum: 29900
Transition 2.0: Fixed an issue with the .blink method when changing the object coordinates after calling it. Casenum: 29259
Transition 2.0: Fixed a bug with transitions that get cancelled immediately after creation. Casenum 27933
Transition 2.0: Fixed onComplete events firing twice. Casenum: 29913
Widget 2.0: Added “moved” phase to the tableView touch. Casenum: 28959
Widget 2.0: Added native behavior for the separators( they dissapear on touch ). No casenum.
Widget 2.0: Added the getValue() getter to the stepper widget. Casenum: 29142
Widget 2.0: Adding the background color and row color properties to the pickerWheel. No casenum.
Widget 2.0: Adding the scrollView:setIsLocked() method. No casenum.
Widget 2.0: Adding the tableView:setIsLocked() function
Widget 2.0: Adresses button labels not receiving the touch events. Casenum: 28320, lso fixes 30123 and 30094.
Widget 2.0: Fixed rerendering of category row in a table containing many category rows. Casenum: 27170, 25561
Widget 2.0: Fixed invalid state for ios7 switch when calling setState(). Partial casenum: 29144
Widget 2.0: Fixed reporting row contentHeight for tableView rows. Casenum: 28359
Widget 2.0: Fixed the color assignment on tableView rows in case one of the states is not specified. No casenum.
Widget 2.0: Fixed the scrolling properties being shared between widgets. Casenum: 29419
Widget 2.0: Fixed the scrollView bottom padding in compatibility mode
Widget 2.0: Fixed for ios7 theme buttons not returning to default state when placed in a scrollview that gets scrolled. Casenum: 27760
Widget 2.0: Fixed label touches on image- and spritesheed-based buttons. Casenum: 28320
Widget 2.0: Fixed texture memory not being deallocated by the pickerWheel widget. Casenum: 30229
Widget 2.0: Fixed the button labels not receiving touch events for imageFile or spriteSheet buttons. Casenum: 28320
Widget 2.0: Fixed the switch alignment for non-ios7 themes. Casenum: 29534, 28960
Widget 2.0: Fixed a segmented control issue when setting custom anchor points on the widget itself (not custom defaults). Casenum: 28956
Widget 2.0: Fixed issues with rendering category rows with delay in a tableView. Casenum: 25367, 24217
Widget 2.0: Fixed over state not propagating correctly for 9slice buttons. No casenum.
Widget 2.0: Fixed rendering issues when deleting row in a tableView with variable row heights. Casenum: 25674
Widget 2.0: Fixed scrollBar on tableView not updating position after creating more rows. Casenum: 26423
Widget 2.0: Fixed segmentedControl touch with custom anchors
Widget 2.0: Fixed tableView height calculation and scrollbar positioning when adding / deleting rows postcreation. Casenum: 24217
Widget 2.0: Fixed the buttonWidget created using a imageSheet not releasing texture memory. Casenum: 25855
Widget 2.0: Fixed the scrollBar appearing on the tableView although the content size is smaller than the view's bounds
Widget 2.0: Fixed the scrollToY method of the tableView to stop velocity before transitioning. No casenum.
Widget 2.0: Fixed the scrollview jumping to 0,0 after inserting content. Casenum: 30775
Widget 2.0: Improving the limit calculation on scrollviews. No casenum.
Widget 2.0: Maintenance on the tableView height calculation method
Widget 2.0: Params set on category row were empty after category rerendering. Casenum: 27439
Widget 2.0: Removed globals created by pickerwheel / progressview. Casenum: 28950
Widget 2.0: Fixing the scrollview jumping to 0,0 after inserting content. Improving the limit calculation on scrollviews. * * * Fixing the scrollToY method of the tableView to stop velocity before transitioning. Casenum: 30775
Win: Add support for transparency in PNGs in display.save() under Window
Win: Change to OpenGL 2.0/2.1 version checking
Win: Fixed issue with relaunching a project not working properly when the project was suspended. Casenum: 29653
Win: Fixed media.playEventSound only plays once in Windows Simulator. Casenum: 7754
Win: Fixed build leaves simulator suspended; added graphical display of suspended state; added shake animation. Casenum: 22040
Win: Fixed truncation of log output. Casenum: 30206
Win: Fixed system.getInfo( “architectureInfo” ) returns nothing on Windows. Casenum: 29472
Win: Removed old version of Corona Project Manager from the install program. This tool can be downloaded separately via “www.coronaprojectmanager.com”.

New in Solar2D 2013.2100 (Feb 11, 2014)

New:
Graphics 2.0 minor maintenance update.
New Features and bug fixes:
Android: Fixed issue with vertex shaders that affect various Android devices (which caused a blank screen)
Core: filter.colorChannelOffset should take the input texture alpha into account. Casenum 28536
Core: Fixed issue where object.fill should honor content scaling for image fills. Casenum: 28513
Core: Disabled antialiasing (platform issues).
Core: Core: Setting the anchor points to a non numerical value will now throw a lua error.
Core: Fixed changing alpha in setFillColor from 0 to 1 on touch causes crash. Casenum 28119
Core: Fixed the centering of Box2D bodies around their DisplayObject. Casenum 28033
Core: Added the ability to save large DisplayObjects, without cropping, to display.save() and display.capture().
Core: Fixed the centering of Box2D bodies around their DisplayObject. Casenum 28033
Core: Added new option to display defaults to preloadTextures via display.setDefault( “preloadTextures”, true/false ) (default is true to function like graphics 1.0.)
Core: Fixed object.fill should honor Documents baseDir. Casenum: 28213
Core: Fixed line:append() wasn’t behaving. Casenum: 28050.
Core: Added the “colorMatrix” and “colorPolynomial” shaders.
Core: Added transition-v1 library
iOS: Fixed DisplayObject anchor animation. Casenum 27665
iOS: Fixed an issue where requesting additional Facebook permissions returned the incorrect event state
iOS: Fixed an issue where the facebook listener wouldn’t receive an event when the user denies the login request.
iOS: Fixed an issue with Korean text being 1 character behind.
iOS: Updating WebView to generate loaded events for back/forward/reload/link
iOS: Added the ability to query if the app is denied access to the integrated Facebook account. To use it call facebook.accessDenied which will return true if access is denied and false if access is granted.
iOS: Fixed an issue where calling facebook.login() would cause the listener to be called too many times
Mac/Windows: Added ICON files for Welcome Screen New Project . Casenum 27920
Transition 2.0: Fixed a bug with transitions that get cancelled immediately after creation. Casenum #27933
Transition 2.0: Fixed the performance issues (now based on Transition 1.0 core)
Transition 2.0: Fixed the functionality to pause/resume/cancel by tag or displayobject
Widget: Fixed snapback issues on touch and drag outside the view.
Widget: Fixed the pickerwheel snapping issues on the columns.
Widget: Added the rowTouchDelay property to the tableView constructor. It specifies the touch delay until the event is propagated. No casenum.
Widget: Fixed a bug where the tabBar with a left value would not receive taps / touches correctly. No casenum.
Widget: Fixes the tableView layout problems when having defined defaults for anchorX/anchorY. Casenum #28095.
Widget: Fixes the scrollView event.phase not being passed to the listener. Casenum #28111.
Widget: Fixed objects with transitions inside a scrollView being paused on scrollView touch. Casenum #28240
Widget: Fixed various issues in widgets that occurred when the default anchor was changed. Casenum: 28340
Widget: Fixed the scrollToIndex() tableView behavior on Graphics 2.0, also fixes casenum: 24858.
Widget: Fixed background leaking through the tableView in the ios7 theme. Also fixes some other tableview rendering issues, casenum: 26439.
Widget: Fixed a bug when deleting a row from a table that is locked or has no scrollbar. Casenum: 26902.
Windows: Adding OpenGL driver check earlier in initialization
Windows: Adding checking around bind buffer (potential crash issue).
Windows: Fixed memory leak. Casenum: 28646

New in Solar2D 2013.2076 (Jan 10, 2014)

New:
Graphics 2.0 minor maintenance update.
New features and bug fixes:
Android: Fixed issue with vertex shaders that affect various Android devices (which caused a blank screen)
Core: filter.colorChannelOffset should take the input texture alpha into account. Casenum 28536
Core: Fixed issue where object.fill should honor content scaling for image fills. Casenum: 28513
Core: Disabled antialiasing (platform issues).
Core: Core: Setting the anchor points to a non numerical value will now throw a lua error.
Core: Fixed changing alpha in setFillColor from 0 to 1 on touch causes crash. Casenum 28119
Core: Fixed the centering of Box2D bodies around their DisplayObject. Casenum 28033
Core: Added the ability to save large DisplayObjects, without cropping, to display.save() and display.capture().
Core: Fixed the centering of Box2D bodies around their DisplayObject. Casenum 28033
Core: Added new option to display defaults to preloadTextures via display.setDefault( “preloadTextures”, true/false ) (default is true to function like graphics 1.0.)
Core: Fixed object.fill should honor Documents baseDir. Casenum: 28213
Core: Fixed line:append() wasn’t behaving. Casenum: 28050.
Core: Added the “colorMatrix” and “colorPolynomial” shaders.
Core: Added transition-v1 library
iOS: Fixed DisplayObject anchor animation. Casenum 27665
iOS: Fixed an issue where requesting additional Facebook permissions returned the incorrect event state
iOS: Fixed an issue where the facebook listener wouldn’t receive an event when the user denies the login request.
iOS: Fixed an issue with Korean text being 1 character behind.
iOS: Updating WebView to generate loaded events for back/forward/reload/link
iOS: Added the ability to query if the app is denied access to the integrated Facebook account. To use it call facebook.accessDenied which will return true if access is denied and false if access is granted.
iOS: Fixed an issue where calling facebook.login() would cause the listener to be called too many times
Transition 2.0: Fixed a bug with transitions that get cancelled immediately after creation. Casenum #27933
Transition 2.0: Fixed the performance issues (now based on Transition 1.0 core)
Transition 2.0: Fixed the functionality to pause/resume/cancel by tag or displayobject
Widget: Fixed snapback issues on touch and drag outside the view
Widget: Fixed the pickerwheel snapping issues on the columns
Widget: Added the rowTouchDelay property to the tableView constructor. It specifies the touch delay until the event is propagated. No casenum
Widget: Fixed a bug where the tabBar with a left value would not receive taps / touches correctly. No casenum
Widget: Fixes the tableView layout problems when having defined defaults for anchorX/anchorY. Casenum #28095
Widget: Fixes the scrollView event.phase not being passed to the listener. Casenum #28111
Widget: Fixed objects with transitions inside a scrollView being paused on scrollView touch. Casenum #28240
Widget: Fixed various issues in widgets that occurred when the default anchor was changed. Casenum: 28340
Widget: Fixed the scrollToIndex() tableView behavior on Graphics 2.0, also fixes casenum: 24858
Widget: Fixed background leaking through the tableView in the ios7 theme. Also fixes some other tableview rendering issues, casenum: 26439
Widget: Fixed a bug when deleting a row from a table that is locked or has no scrollbar. Casenum: 26902
Windows: Adding OpenGL driver check earlier in initialization
Windows: Adding checking around bind buffer (potential crash issue)
Windows: Fixed memory leak. Casenum: 28646

New in Solar2D 2013.2076 (Jan 10, 2014)

New:
Dynamically-sized rectangular masks via containers
Custom (non-intersecting) polygons
Custom image fills in all shapes, not just quads
Multitexturing support via composite paints
Images for anti-aliased strokes and lines
Over 70 effects (filters, generators, and composites)
Multi-pass shaders via node-based shader graphs
Tiling via texture repeat modes
Texture transform properties (position, rotation, scale)
Quadrilateral perspective distortion for 2.5D/3D effects
Render to texture with snapshots
Canvas-style drawing with snapshots
Custom blend modes and Porter-Duff presets
Blend equation control: add, substract, and reverseSubtract
Alignment via anchors for responsive interfaces
Automatic batch detection
Updated Welcome Window
New features and bug fixes:
Android/iOS: Add the ability to detect when a user taps on a certain location within a map view.
Android/iOS: Add the ability to set the preferredMaxDuration and preferredQuality for captured videos. Also returns the duration and file size of the video.
Android/iOS: Added properties “xRaw”, “yRaw”, and “zRaw” to the accelerometer event.
Android/iOS: Added Tap events for map markers.
Android/iOS: Fixed some instances where the annotation wouldn’t show up or the dialog bubble woudldn’t show up. Casenum: 26678
Android/iOS: Move flurry from the core to a plugin.
Android/iOS: Return the original requested location for a map:requestLocation() function call.
Android: Added “Icon-xxhdpi.png” application icon support.
Android: Added support for native.newVideo().
Android: Composing email/sms lets the user choose the default app.
Android: Custom images for map markers.
Android: Fixed a possible issue which causes expansion files to not download.
Android: Fixed an issue on certain devices where the 2 characters would be deleted in a text field. Casenum: 26307
Android: Fixed an issue where map marker on touch listeners wouldn’t fire an event if there isn’t a subtitle or title.
Android: Fixed an issue where selecting or creating a video would return an invalid url.
Android: Fixed an issue where you couldn’t create a plugin for the native module because the package name can’t have “.native.” in it. Now instead of “.native.” in the package name it has to be “._native.” in the package name.
Android: Fixed crash that sometimes occurs while backing out of the app when using the “location”, “heading”, “accelerometer”, or “gyroscope” events.
Android: Made the cause of expansion file download errors are more obvious.
Android: Modified system.getInfo(“androidDisplayDensityName”) to return “xxhdpi” instead of “unknown” for that type of display.
Android: Optimized display.newText(). Creating and changing text is now faster, uses less memory, and causes far less Java garbage collection.
Android: Optimized loading of JPEG files having an EXIF orientation of 90, 180, or 270 degrees. Now loads 2–3 times faster and uses less memory. (This is a common case when loading images from the photo library or camera.)
Android: Optimized the loading of PNG image files.
Android: Slightly improved image and text loading performance some more.
Android: Support table listeners for map marker touch events.
Core: Add the ability to get videos from devices.
Core: Add the ability to remove a specific marker on a mapview.
Core: Added Transitions 2.0 and Easing 2.0. Transition 2.0 builds on the existing functionality of 1.0. Easing 2.0 includes all the functions from Robert Penner’s library ( 43 functions ).
Core: Fixed an issue where media.show() would not call back the listener and the display object would not be returned.
Core: Added media.captureVideo(), media.capturePhoto(), media.selectPhoto(), media.selectVideo() apis.
Core: display.newEmbossedText() text creation/update performance is now 3 times faster
Core: display.newEmbossedText() now supports properties "text" and "size" just like a display.newText() object. (Still supports old setText() and setSize() functions.)
Core: display.newEmbossedText() now supports an options table just like display.newText().
Core: display.newEmbossedText() shadow/highlight edges now respect the foreground text's alpha channel.
Core: display.newEmbossedText() now supports the display.setDefault("textColor") value which is white by default instead of always defaulting to black. (Will always default to black if using V1 compatibility mode.)
iOS: Added “SkipPNGCrush” build.settings directive - no casenum
iOS: Custom images for map markers.
iOS: Displaying the camera view will not show the status bar. Casenum: 26051
iOS: Fixed a crash when a map marker was added with an options table which doesn’t have both a title and subtitle. Casenum: 26704
iOS: Fixed a possible crash from pressing the return key on the keyboard.
iOS: Fixed an issue on iOS 7 where textFields and textBox’s text were 1 character behind what was typed. Casenum: 25282, 26140
iOS: Fixed an issue on iPads where meda.selectPhoto() and media.selectVideo() wouldn’t return any results.
iOS: Fixed an issue where facebook.login would not respond.
iOS: Fixed an issue where map marker touch events aren’t always fired.
iOS: Fixed an issue where the last line on multiline text didn’t show on iOS 7. Casenum: 26539
iOS: Fixed an issue where the status bar’s look wouldn’t change or hide. Casenum: 26056, 25715
iOS: Fixed an issue where the text from text fields and text boxes aren’t consistant with what is on the screen.
iOS: Fixes issue with media.show for camera and photolibrary crashing on iOS 7 in landscape mode (iPhone/iPod). Put CoronaUseIOS7LandscapeOnlyWorkaround in the plist section of the build.settings file.
iOS: Switch to building with iOS7 by default - no casenum
iOS: Updated the iOS implementation of Facebook so that it will request read and publish permissions seperately. There is no change required from the Lua side. This change will let iOS > 5 use the iOS native login dialog.
iOS: Fixed an issue with Facebook where requesting the same permissions over and over would launch the user to the facebook app each time.
iOS: Fixed an issue where editing text in the middle of a text field doesn't correctly edit the text.
Physics: Disable Rtt_NotifyLuaInCallstack() until we fix it. This is related to, but DOESN’T fix, casenum 27230, 27231, 27247, 27254.
Transitions 2.0: Added opticnal debug flag and backwards compatibility with Transition 1.0 nil objects. Fixes for possible race conditions. Refactoring and performance improvements.
Transitions 2.0: Added restore transition.dissolve
Transitions 2.0: Fixing issues when using easing with delta.
Widgets: Add in the iOS7 theme for widgets.
Widgets: Adding inclusion of the local copy of the slider widget.
Widgets: Adding the property scrollBarAutoHide to the constructor for tableView and scrollView. Also fixing a bug that went unnoticed where the scrollbar was created multiple times.
Widgets: Detecting swipe events on the tableView while in the “moved” phase.
Widgets: Fixes issues when not setting width or height in the scrollView constructor. Casenum #25256.
Widgets: Fixes the slider widget not propagating the began phase.
Widgets: Fixes the tableView losing touch listener when entering suspend. Casenum #24731.
Widgets: Recreate native behavior when scrolling to a limit and tapping really fast. Also fixes scroll-back bugs. Casenum #26164.
Widgets: Removed test for tableView getRowAtIndex for the moment.
Widgets: Scroll direction propagation in the touch event, moved phase. Also fixing the horizontal snapback for scrollviews. Casenum: #24995, #26409.
Widgets: Shows the iOS 7 theme by default on iOS 7 devices. iOS 6 devices continue to show the iOS 6 theme.
Widgets: Small fixes to the tableView row rendering. Adding tableView:reloadData() method for re-rendering. No casenum.
Widgets: Fixed an issue where a stray event listener would cause a runtime error.
Windows: Added “Icon-xxhdpi” Android app icons to all sample projects.
Windows: Added sample project “Media\NewVideo” which demonstrates how to use the native.newVideo() API.
Windows: Fix a crash that occurred due to an interaction between automatic project reloads and runtime errors - no casenum
Windows: Implement “relaunch on project change” and “open last active project” to match Mac functionality - no casenum

New in Solar2D 2013.1202 (Jan 10, 2014)

New:
Android: Added support for input devices supporting the HID protocol
Includes the Ouya, GameStick, MOGA Pro, and Nvidia Shield gamepads
Also includes support for keyboards, mice, touchpads, and other HID devices
Android: Updated the Facebook SDK to version 3.0.1
Android: Real time multiplayer support via Google Play game services
Core: display.newText now supports left, center, and right alignment.
iOS: Support for iOS Game Center turn-based multiplayer
Mac/Windows: Added “Ouya” and “GameStick” support for Android builds
Mac/Windows: Simulator now remembers build settings
Windows: Zoom level no longer limited by the resolution of the display
All: Real time multiplayer support via Photon Cloud (plugin)
Android/iOS: Real time analytics via Amplitude (plugin)
iOS: Native social popup for Facebook, Twitter, Weibo (plugin)
iOS: Address Book Access popup (plugin)
Ad Provider: Vungle (plugin)
Ad Provider: CrossInstall (plugin)
Cross Promotion: AppRever (plugin)
Cross Promotion: OneLouder/Pinsite (plugin)
New features and bug fixes:
Android: Added new function system.getInputDevices() which fetches an array of all connected input devices.
Android: Added a new “inputDeviceStatus” event which is raised when a device has been connected, disconnected, or reconfigured.
Android: Added a new “axis” event. (Can be used to receive analog input from a gamepad’s joysticks and triggers.)
Android: Added a new “mouse” event for tracking the mouse cursor position and its button states.
Android: Modified “tap” event to only occur for a mouse when the primary mouse button is clicked, like how it works in the Corona Simulator. (Used to register a “tap” event for the middle and right mouse buttons.)
Android: Modified mouse handling to provide “touch” events while the primary/left mouse button is pressed, just like how it is handled by the Corona Simulator. (Provides easy mouse support for existing apps on devices that do not have a touchscreen, such as Ouya.)
Android: Updated “key” event to support all keys and gamepad buttons.
Android: Added properties “event.device”, “event.descriptor”, “event.nativeKeyCode”, “event.isShiftDown”, “event.isAltDown”, and “event.isCtrlDown” to the “key” event.
Android: Added game controller vibration/rumble support on Android 4.1 or higher devices. Can detect support via the InputDevice.canVibrate property. Can vibrate by calling the InputDevice:vibrate() function.
Android: Added intent filter support to the “build.settings” file. (Can be used to launch an app via a URL scheme. Also needed to categorize the app for Ouya.)
Android: Added Ouya app icon support. Set by adding an “Icon-ouya.png” that is 732x412 pixels in the root Corona project directory.
Android: Changed the Facebook implementation so that permissions are requested in batches instead of in one shot which caused issues with logging in. Casenum: 25128
Android: Fixed an issue where updating an app which uses expansion files would cause a crash on the first subsequent run if the expansion file itself wasn’t updated. Casenum: 23887
Android: Fixed bug introduced in daily build #1053 where offscreen TextFields and TextBoxes cannot receive the keyboard focus and will not provide “userInput” events. Casenum: 24464
Android: Fixed bug where Android 4.3 devices would wrongly wrap text when display.newText() is not set up for wrapping. Casenums: 25216, 25233
Android: Fixed bug where media.playVideo() will crash when the video finishes if Android developer option “Don’t keep activities” is checked on. Casenum: 25014
Android: Fixed issue with content-length on POSTs with multibyte characters.
Android: Improve error handling when an invalid APK is built (e.g. because of missing icon files)
Android: Landscape-only apps no longer require portrait orientation from a device. (Was preventing portrait only devices from buying a landscape only app from the app store.)
Android: Modified “display.statusBarHeight” and “display.topStatusBarContentHeight” to return zero for Ouya and GameStick.
Android: Modified native objects to not be culled by Corona when moved partially or completely offscreen.
Android: Removed the need for Facebook to require at least 1 permission.
Android: Resolve an issue where the sound would continue playing after a device’s power button was pressed. This also fixes an issue where the “applicationSuspend” event was not fired when the power button was pressed.
Android: Setting a text field to “isSecure” will not show suggestions anymore. Casenum: 22214
Android: The facebook.showDialog() event did not have a response. Now it has a response that matches what is in iOS.
Android: Update the Facebook SDK to version 3.0.1
Core: Added physics.setDebugErrorsEnabled() for extra run-time debugging information in Box2D.
Core: Added plugin version management.
Core: Added system.getInfo( “graphicsPipelineVersion” ).
Core: Added the “unsorted” behavior to physics.rayCast().
Core: Added additional diagnostics for potential build issues
Core: Added support for left/right/center alignment for multiline text in display.newText
Core: Added the ability to call the publishInstall function in the Facebook SDK which allows users to track the number of installs.
Core: Avoid using invalid points in b2Manifold.
Core: Don’t report plugin errors for non-supported platforms.
Core: Enabled physics.setDebugErrorsEnabled() by default (Mac simulator only).
Core: Fixed crash that can occur under certain circumstances if a focussed object is removed from the stage. Casenum 24058
Core: Fixed issue with AL_mixer which prevented more than 92 sounds being played sequentially. No casenum.
Core: Fixed issue with focus on child objects which could cause a crash. Casenum 21818, 23684
Core: Fixed the logic that selects the most recent version of a plugin to download.
Core: Fixed the physics debug drawing scale.
Core: Fixed various crashes associated with disposing of audio streams; issue error messages when invalid (usually previously disposed) streams are passed to various audio. APIs. Casenum 24229
Core: Fixed bug where “touch” event’s “time” property did not match the timestamps provided by the operating system while multitouch is activated.
Core: Prevent redownloading plugins that have been confirmed not to exist.
Core: Tweaked plugin downloading to handle case where plugin file is missing. No casenum.
Core: Upgrade JSON (dkjson) from version 2.1 to 2.3.
Enterprise/Android: Fix issue with spaces in Android Enterprise project names. Casenum: 19926
iOS: Added support for playerGroup, playerAttribute, inviteMessage, and maxPlayersAllowedMatch to iOS turn based multiplayer.
iOS: Allow native alert boxes without buttons. Undo the fix for casenum 20069.
iOS: Fixed media.show() crashing on iOS7, by adding a tag to the plist: CoronaUseIOS7LandscapeOnlyWorkaround. Casenum: 24796
iOS: Rebuild latest version of Facebook plugin. No casenum.
iOS: Removed all usage of MAC address for generating unique ids. Casenum: 25726
iOS: Removed WebView gray screen when loading hash fragments. Casenum: 21353
iOS: Support for iOS Game Center turn based multiplayer
iOS: Support iOS 6: system.getInfo(“deviceID”) now returns the MD5 hash of “identifierForVendor” because MAC address is no longer available. No casenum
iOS: Update Flurry plugin to version 4.2.3. No casenum.
iOS/Android: Fixed issue with not being able to turn off launchpad analytics (“launchPad = false” in config.lua). No casenum.
iOS/Android: Implemented Amplitude device analytics (note that apps built with this build and subsequent ones will no longer send analytics to the old system). No casenum.
Mac/Windows: Added “Ouya” and “GameStick” to the Android build window’s store target list.
Mac/Windows: Added a readme file to the sample projects. Renamed some sample projects. Removed old sample projects.
Mac/Windows: Display an error if a plugin can’t be downloaded.
Mac/Windows: Fixed crash that sometimes occurs after an Android build if an app icon is missing.
Mac/Windows: Modified Android build error messages to be more human readable.
Widget 2.0: Added failsafe to the scrollBarOptions table of the tableView. No caesium.
Widget 2.0: Added instance methods setScrollWidth() / setScrollHeight(). Casenum 22869, 21859
Widget 2.0: Added tap event to the tabbar, fixes tap event propagation on the widgets behind tab bars. Casenum 24126
Widget 2.0: Adds a custom params table to the insertRow ethod of the tableview, allowing for easy attachment of custom data to table rows. Casenum 23811
Widget 2.0: Corrects the switch instantiation via image sheet. Casenum 23648
Widget 2.0: Creates the API method resizeView( newWidth ) for the progressView widget, allowing resize after creation. Casenum 21874
Widget 2.0: Enables choosing elements in the picker widget by tapping on them. Casenum 21788
Widget 2.0: Exposes the stepper inc/dec speed and iteration number properties. asenum 21958.
Widget 2.0: Fixed a bug in the pickerWheel where by a fast scroll, a nil value was returned. Casenum 23290
Widget 2.0: Fixed the widget TabBar image alignment bug + overlay file bug. Casenum 24916
Widget 2.0: Fixes an error while deleting all the tablerows. No casenum.
Widget 2.0: Fixes changing scroll direction when the swipe occurs near one of the view limits. Casenum 22607, 24316
Widget 2.0: Fixes involuntary scrolling after tapping and holding. Casenum 24244, 22607
Widget 2.0: Fixes positioning of segmented controls inside groups, as well as the inherited segment width variables in case of multiple instances being displayed. Casenum 24637, 24525
Widget 2.0: Fixes rows bouncing back when the touch finishes in tableView. Casenum 24857
Widget 2.0: Fixes scrollToIndex() not taking into account category rows. Casenum 24858
Widget 2.0: Fixes Switch crash. Casenum: 24168, 24146
Widget 2.0: Fixes TabBar errors when custom images not supplied. Casenum 23996
Widget 2.0: Fixes tableView deleteRow() and deleteRows() errors, as well as the number of rows being returned incorrectly. Casenum 24065, 23890, 23678
Widget 2.0: Fixes tableView objects having a width or height of 0 if the width or height parameters are omitted. Casenum 24856
Widget 2.0: Fixes tableView:scrollToIndex() working only once. Casenum 24859, 24639
Widget 2.0: Fixes the calculation of segmented controls. No casenum.
Widget 2.0: Fixes the custom scroll view scrollbar images not working. Casenum 24489
Widget 2.0: Fixes the newButton label Y centering problem. Casenum 23968
Widget 2.0: Fixes the progressView not being able to set a progress smaller than the actual value. Casenum 24797
Widget 2.0: Fixes the tabBar selected image to scale to custom height if defined. Casenum 21961
Widget 2.0: Fixes the tableView scrollbar skinning with imageSheets. Casenum 23646
Widget 2.0: Fixes the touch permission variable or tableviews if the view has hit bottom or top limit. Casenum 23406
Widget 2.0: Fixes unwanted animation of the tableView after deleting a row. Also updates the scrollbar position and scroll area after deletion. Casenum 24519
Widget 2.0: Fixing a regression bug in the pickerwheel. No casenum.
Widget 2.0: Picker view autocap text when defining large labels, and solving up the scroll issues at high speed to one of the list ends. Casenum 23290
Widget 2.0: Refactoring the isBounceEnabled property for the TableView widget. No casenum.
Widget 2.0: Removed delay in resetting the tapped cell’s background color. Casenum 24263
Widget 2.0: Return the correct value in the Picker when the user taps on a value. Casenum 24148
Widget 2.0: Small correction in the positioning of custom image files for the tab bars. No casenum.
Widget 2.0: The scrollview gets the .isBounceEnabled property that allows the view to bounce back or not, like the native behaviour. Casenum: 21357
Windows: Added “key” event support when simulating an Android device.
Windows: Added “mouse” event support when simulating an Android device.
Windows: Added Ouya and GameStick to the ViewAs menu.
Windows: Added sample project “Media/StreamVideoPort”.
Windows: Fixed bug where display.newText() would remove trailing spaces on Windows. (Now behaves like Mac, iOS, and Android.) Casenum: 24321
Windows: Fixed issues with multibyte UTF8 filenames. Various casenums.
Windows: Fixed bug where you can rotate the Welcome screen by pressing Ctrl+Left or Ctrl+Right.
Windows: Fixed Corona Simulator to load and build projects having unicode directory names.
Windows: Fixed login issue with “broken” ticket (Simulator exited silently); improved deauth behavior. No casenum.
Windows: Allow the simulator to zoom all the way in regardless of screen resolution.
Windows: Fixed issue with two instances of Simulator starting when a lua file was specified on the command line. Casenum 23206
Windows: Remember position of console window between restarts; reduce flashing of windows on startup. No casenum.
Windows: Revert to behavior of requiring login on start of Simulator (if not already logged in). No casenum.
Windows: Switching skins sometimes caused inconstant zoom level. You would be able to zoom in but can’t zoom back out. Casenum: 15795

New in Solar2D 2013.1137 (Jan 10, 2014)

New:
Plugins are now supported: AdMob, Carrot, GreenThrottle, InMobi, iAds, inneractive, SponsorPay andTapForTap. The following plugins are only available to Pro/Enterprise users: bit, Fortumo, Google Play game services, OpenUDID, OpenSSL and ZIP
Automatic package name generation for Android/Amazon/Nook builds
Android: Added Expansion File support
Windows/Mac: Now allows building and signing with JDK6 or JDK7. Only 32 bit JDK supported on Windows
The Runtime restrictions have been removed for Amazon Kindle Fire, Nook, and Google. All Android builds run on all devices
Improved UI for logging into the simulator
You are only required to log into the simulator when you first build an app
New features and bug fixes:
All: Fixed potential issue with plugins.
Android: A network request with a malformed url caused a crash. Now instead of crashing the listener is called with isError set to true.
Android: Added “native.systemFontBold” support. casenum: 12725, 14063
Android: Added ability to load the app’s icon or another app’s icon by calling display.newImage() or display.newImageRect() with URL “android.app.icon://my.package.name”. Useful for 3rd party Lua library developers.
Android: Added ability to trigger a local notification when a network request/download/upload finishes successfully.
Android: Added new system.getInfo() properties “androidDisplayXDpi”, “androidDisplayYDpi”, “androidDisplayWidthInInches”, and “androidDisplayHeightInInches”.
Android: Added property system.getInfo(“androidDisplayApproximateDpi”) which fetches the DPI based on the density name such as “mdpi”, “hdpi”, or “xhdpi”.
Android: Added property system.getInfo(“androidDisplayDensityName”) which returns a density name such as “xhdpi”, “hdpi”, “mdpi”, etc.
Android: Can now run apps targeting Google Play (or any app store) on Nook and Kindle Fire.
Android: Fixed bug web popup still acts like it is shown when pressing the Back to close it. casenum: 20912
Android: Fixed bug where calling display.newText() without a line wrapping width would still have its text wrapped at OpenGL’s max texture size. Modified to clip the text instead of wrapping in this case. casenum: 23371
Android: Fixed bug where display.save() and display.capture() does not respect alpha on device’s using GPU “PowerVR SGX 540”.
Android: Fixed bug where InMobi ads would continue to make network requests after exiting the app.
Android: Fixed bug where InMobi ads would only be displayed upon 1st launch of the app. Would not display ads on subsequent launches.
Android: Fixed bug where native text fields, text boxes, and web views would get misplaced on tablets running Android OS 3.x or higher after an orientation change or screen resize.
Android: Fixed bug where native.showPopup(“mail”) fails to attach files on Nook if the file name contains spaces. casenum: 19465
Android: Fixed bug where screen would be layed out wrong after the app window has been resized. Typically only happens on tablets running Android OS 3.x or higher after an orientation change, because the bottom navigation bar moves too. casenum: 11681, 13136, 13332,13590, 22064, 22357
Android: Fixed bug where setting up an app to use both plugins AdMob and TapForTap would cause a ClassNotFound exception at runtime.
Android: Fixed bug where store.target and system.getInfo(“targetAppStore”) would always return “none” as of daily build #1088, which also broke automatic download of expansion files.
Android: Fixed bug where system.scheduleNotification() does not work with a date table. casenum: 22211
Android: Fixed download success notifications so they don’t fire when the download is cancelled.
Android: Fixed media.playVideo pauses when the screen is locked. Casenum: 22479
Android: Improved quality of JPEGs created by display.save() from 50% to 90%, matching the quality used by display.capture().
Android: Modified display.newText() to use the system’s default font size if given a font size of zero, like Mac and iOS. (Note that this is only useful for apps that do not use dynamic content scaling because the scale factor will be applied to the default font size, making it larger than the default.)
Android: Modified native.showPopup(“rateApp”) and native.showPopup(“appStore”) to show the store the app was targeting in the build window. If targeting “none”, then will fallback to old behavior of selecting the store that installed the app or the first store it finds in your supported list.
Android: Now cancels/removes all local and push notifications when calling native.setProperty(“applicationIconBadgeNumber”, 0) to match iOS’ behavior. casenum: 22072
Android: Updated the Google licensing module to throw an exception if verify is called but the “com.android.vending.CHECK_LICENSE” permission isn’t set.
Android/iOS: Added the abiliy to set the return key, setReturnKey().
Core: Phyiscs – Add physics.reflectRay() to Lua.
Core: Phyiscs – Add support for AABB region queries in physics (physics.queryRegion).
Core: Phyiscs – Add support for ray casting in physics.
Core: Physics: Fix ray casting sort order.
Core: Phyiscs – Add the surface normal to the results returned from physics.rayCast().
Core: Added a new “resize” event that is raised when the contentWidth/Height, viewableContentWidth/Height, or contentScaleX/Y has been changed. This can happen when changing orientation by 90 degrees. Can also happen when the app has been resized (common on Android tablets) and needed by apps that use zoomEven scaling or no scaling.
Core: Added new system.getInfo() properties “appName”, “appVersionString”, “androidAppVersionCode”, and “androidAppPackageName”.
Core: Fixed bug where a global variable named “textHighlight” was being created by mistake after calling display.newEmbossedText().
Core: Fixed Network plugin to return a response based on raw data returned
Core: Moved inmobi and inneractive to plugin
Core: Network library to replace “null” with “nil” (fixed global variable issue)
Core: Take the pixel-to-meter conversion factor into account during ray casting. casenum 22591, 22593
Enterprise: Added ability to set up a handler for the onActivityResult() method on Android without having to derive from the CoronaActivity class. (See the CoronaActivity.registerActivityResultHandler() method and the CoronaActivity.OnActivityResultHandler interface for more details.)
Enterprise: Changed CoronaActivity.unregisterActivityResultHandler() method to remove a handler by reference instead of by request code. This is a safety mechanism that makes it impossible for one plugin to accidentally remove another plugin’s result handler.
iOS: Fix applicationStart Event Fires Twice on iOS Device - casenum 22758
iOS: Add system.getInfo() support for “iosAdvertisingIdentifier”, “iosIdentifierForVendor” and “iosAdvertisingTrackingEnabled” - fixes casenum 22307
iOS: Change the minimum supported iOS version to 5.1 (from 4.3) because we can’t support 4.3 - no casenum
iOS: Fixed “iosAdvertisingTrackingEnabled” which caused odd errors - casenum 23139
iOS: Fixed bug where an orientation event would always be raised on app startup. Should only be raised when the orientation has changed. This helps improve performance for apps that re-layout the screen after an orientation change. casenum: 10297
iOS: Fixed bug where system.cancelNotification() would not remove all push notifications, only local notifications. Now removes both. casenum: 22070
iOS: Modified code that uses “CoronaUseIOS6PortraitOnlyWorkaround” in build.settings plist section to work on all versions of the OS and not just iOS 6.0. This allows media.playVideo to autorotate in Portrait-only apps. No casenum.
iOS: Moved iads and inMobi libraries from core to plugin.
iOS: Updated network plugin to prevent crash on iOS 5.1 when destination is not reachable casenum:22721
iOS: Updated push notifications to support receiving “custom” fields from outside the body of the “aps” body. To preserve backwards compatibility we fall back to look for a “custom” field in the “aps” body if we did not find it as a sibling to “aps”
iOS: Fixed implementation of “hasBackground” for TextFields - addresses casenum 12532
iOS: Updating WebView to support loading an html string, it’s not currently supported on Android
Mac/Windows: Added support for JDK 7 (32-bit/x86) to the Corona Simulator for Android builds. (This is used to digitally sign APKs. Note that the 64-bit versions are not supported. Corona Enterprise developers must still use 32-bit version of JDK 6, which is an Android requirement.)
Mac/Windows: fix issue with being unable to deauth and tidy up some other issues with the migration to com.coronalabs bundle id - no casenum
Mac/Windows: Fix issue with too many files break app builds - fixes casenum 22362
Mac/Windows: Fixed bug where the Corona Simulator would misplace the iOS status bar when displaying it in an orientation that the app did not support or if the app was set up for letterbox or zoomEven scaling. casenum: 14410
Mac/Windows: Fixed Corona Simulator bug where “display” properties contentWidth/Height, viewableContentWidth/Height, contentScaleX/Y, contentCenterX/Y, and screenOriginX/Y would be wrongly swapped when rotating to an orientation that the app does not support. casenum: 1312, 13037
Widget 2.0: Adds “tap” event to tableView rows. Fixes casenum 22246.
Widget 2.0: Adds method scrollToIndex to pickerWheels. Fixes casenum: 22360
Widget 2.0: Adds tableView method object:getNumRows() which returns the number of rows in a tableView. No Casenum
Widget 2.0: Adds tableView row method row:setRowColor() which allows you to set the row’s default/over color within your onRowTouch function. No Casenum
Widget 2.0: Button:setLabel() keeps adding labelYOffset to label position. Fixes casenum: 22445
Widget 2.0: Buttons with height less than or equal to 30 with no background image have no center graphic. Fixes casenum: 21705
Widget 2.0: Fix incorrect setFillColor function for textOnly buttons.
Widget 2.0: Fixed issue where stepper couldn?t be incremented/decremented correctly after changing it’s reference point.
Widget 2.0: Fixed issue where stepper couldn?t be incremented/decremented correctly after deep nesting in groups
Widget 2.0: Fixed issue where tabBar buttons labels could not be omitted nor nil, was causing a runtime error. Fixes casenum 22149
Widget 2.0: Fixed issue with tableView categories not passing isCategory to the rowRender function. Fixes casenum: 22373
Widget 2.0: Fixes a crash which could occur after an object inserted into a scrollView was inserted into another group then back into the scrollView then removed. Fixes casenum: 22436
Widget 2.0: Fixes gradient issue with widget buttons using 9 slice (default theme). Also fixes issue where setting a 9 slice button’s alpha to less than 1 would result in graphical issues. Fixes casenum 21914
Widget 2.0: Fixes issue where a segmented control with a left value of more than 50 pixels would result in some segments from being unable to be pressed. Casenum 22405
Widget 2.0: Fixes issue where a tableView’s row’s separating line would also be added to it’s left/right and top edges. Fixes casenum: 22943
Widget 2.0: Fixes issue where default tab button would not be highlighted if using image sheet buttons. Fixes casenum: 22609
Widget 2.0: Fixes issue where on/off switch .isOn state was not getting set after calling object:setState() without a visual animation. Fixes casenum: 22772
Widget 2.0: Fixes issue where PickerWheel right alignment of column text was not working & multiple picker wheels were causing runtime errors. Fixes casenum: 23160
Widget 2.0: Fixes issue where positioning a slider after creation would make the slider unresponsive to touch events on it’s handle. Fixes casenum 22458.
Widget 2.0: Fixes issue where scrolling a tableView past it’s limits then releasing the touch within the tableView bounds would throw a setFillColor error. Casenum’s, 23193, 23218
Widget 2.0: Fixes issue where scrollView event.target was not returning the scrollView object, but instead it’s _view property. Fixes casenum 22241
Widget 2.0: Fixes issue where ScrollView method object:scrollToPosition() did not cancel previous scrolling momentum. Fixes casenums 22580, 23084
Widget 2.0: Fixes issue where setFillColor didn’t apply a fill color to a widget buttons “overFile” image. Fixes casenum: 23182
Widget 2.0: Fixes issue where Stepper Widget did not factor in it’s parent groups offset. Fixes casenum 21839
Widget 2.0: Fixes issue where tabBar size error handler was not being called. Fixes casenum 22465
Widget 2.0: Fixes issue with deleteRow not removing the row from the row’s table. Casenum 22848
Widget 2.0: Improves tableView performance both on initial creation and when scrolling. No Casenum.
Widget 2.0: Scrolling multiple columns in pickerView reads the column height incorrectly.
Widget 2.0: TableView function scrollToIndex has no onComplete method. Fixes casenum 22324
Widget 2.0: Enforce row touches not to be permitted while the tableview is still moving. Casenum: 22888
Widget 2.0: Fixes issue where the tableView noLines parameter does not always work.
Widget 2.0: Fixed performance bug. (However, no longer attempts to load your own implementation of the widget libraries in the “widgetLibrary” subdirectory by default. You must override the widget library explicitly via “package.preload” as shown in GitHub’s sample code.)
Windows: Smooth Simulator flow by postponing login until a build is requested - no casenum
Window: Added white rectangle placeholder for native TextBoxes and TextFields in simulator.
Window: Create default package name for Android builds and prevent building into the app directory - no casenum
Window: Ctrl+B accelerator for “Build” shortcut - no casenum
Window: Fixed bug where Corona fails to read the Android keystore after doing a Java update from version 6 to 7. (Caused by missing “msvcr100.dll” in the Windows system directory required by the JVM.) casenum: 23222
Window: Updated Corona Simulator’s OpenSSL library from version 1.0.0.7 to 1.0.1.5, matching the version that the OpenSSL plugin uses.

New in Solar2D 2013.1076 (Jan 10, 2014)

All: Add a new implementation of display.newEmbossedText()
All: Alpha now works with masked images
All: Fixed issue with storyboard scene events firing in an incorrect order. As reported here
All: Improved error message for media.save() (more precisely identify missing file)
All: Remove OpenFeint because it has been shut down
Android: Added custom data support to local/scheduled notifications
Android: Added JavaScript geolocation support to WebView and WebPopup. (Note that this still requires Android permissions ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION and/or ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION)
Android: Added new build.settings option settings.android.largeHeap = true that allows apps to use more memory on Android 3.0 or higher devices. Works around out-of-memory errors when loading large images for high res displays
Android: Added new function system.request("suspendApplication") which hides/suspends the application and brings the user back to the home/menu screen. Also added function system.request("exitApplication") which exits the application gracefully on Android, which does the same thing as native.requestExit()
Android: Added (*.otf) OpenType font file support to display.newText(). (Only supported TrueType fonts before)
Android: Added push notification support via Google Cloud Messaging (GCM). (Requires the Google Play app to be installed. See sample app Notifications/GooglePushNotifications)
Android: Changed mapView:getAddress() location to use Google's API v3. v2 is in the process of being deprecated and required a key to use. Added a new API mapView:requestLocation(), which functions just like getAddress except this one is none blocking and thus takes a listener as an extra argument. Finally, mapView:nearestAddress() takes a listener as the third parameter instead of having to add a listener through the runtime
Android: Changed media.save() and display.capture() functions to save images to the My File/Pictures directory instead of the root My Files directory
Android: Fixed a crash that can sometimes occur when accessing a TextField or TextBox's text property while the end-user is editing the field
Android: Fixed bug where a landscape app's contents would sometimes become black or its contents misplaced when returning from the screen lock. (Only known to happen on a Samsung Galaxy W, but could happen on other devices as well)
Android: Fixed bug where a landscape orientation event would sometimes be raised on a portrait only app and vice-versa. (Only known to happen on a Samsung Galaxy SIII and Galaxy Tab when transitioning from another app having a different orientation)
Android: Fixed bug where a landscape-only app would sometimes display a black screen when returning from screen lock. (Happens rarely and only on particular devices)
Android: Fixed bug where an app supporting portrait and landscape orientations will not always change orientations on a Galaxy Nexus
Android: Fixed bug where displaying the Nook app store from a landscape only app will sometimes cause a 10-40 second delay
Android: Fixed bug where mail attachments would not get sent on a Nook Color
Android: Fixed bug where media.show(media.PhotoLibrary) would fail to load images from Picasa, Google+, SkyDrive, and other remote sources
Android: Fixed bug where quickly changing the orientation of an app that supports portrait and landscape orientations on startup can be displayed at the wrong orientation
Android: Fixed bug where Samsung Galaxy SII would display last rendered frame from a landscape app on the screen lock
Android: Fixed bug where screen would be shifted up when returning from screen lock on a Nook HD
Android: Fixed crash on app startup that only occurs on particular devices using GPU PowerVR SGX 540 such as LGs. (Does not crash on Kindle Fires or Nooks)
Android: Fixed crash with facebook.request() and facebook.showDialog() when passing boolean or numeric parameters. (Corona will now convert them to strings, which is what the Facebook Android SDK expects)
Android: Fixed display.statusBarHeight to return the correct pixel height for the Kindle Fire HD devices
Android: Fixed duplicate time-stamping issue with touch events and widget TableView scrolling problems
Android: Fixed in-app purchase to not return an error when calling store.finishTransaction() with the newest version of Google Play
Android: Fixed InMobi issue on Android 4.x where a black or white rectangle would briefly flash/flicker onscreen when displaying an ad
Android: Fixed media.save() to not export the given image file to PNG and instead copy the image file as-is to the gallery app. (This allows JPEGs to be transferred unaltered)
Android: Fixed silent crash that can only be seen in the log when quickly backing out of the app just before an alert dialog or activity indicator gets displayed
Android: Fixed store.finishTransaction() with Google Play. No longer causes past purchases to be received
Android: Fixed issue where Android does not post data without content header
Android: Improved error handling. Now displays specific Lua runtime errors onscreen and outputs Lua stack trace to Android log. Outputs Lua file name and line number for debug builds. Also displays Java exceptions invoked by Lua onscreen, such as missing permissions
Android: Modified push and local notifications to raise a notification event immediately if the Corona app is active and in the foreground. (This is to match iOS' behavior)
Android: Modified store transaction callback to provide information needed to verify Google Play in-app purchases via the event.transaction.receipt and event.transaction.signature properties
Android: Modified system.openURL() to return false if unable to open the given URL, which matches iOS' behavior
Android: Modified TextField and TextBox to preserve the cursor position(s) when changing their text in Lua
Android: Modified the volume controls for media.playVideo() to adjust the media volume instead of the ringer volume
Android: Modified volume controls to not flip back and forth between adjusting ringer and media volumes. Now when you load/play audio at least once, volume controls always adjust media volume. If you never play audio, then volume controls adjusts ringer volume
Android: Now automatically mutes audio output if the ringer is put into silent/vibrate mode. Required by the Samsung app store review process
Android: On the Amazon Kindle the attachments had the wrong content type which caused the attachments to show incorrectly
Android: Ported Google's newest OpenGL bug fixes to Corona, making the fixes available on older Android OS versions
Android: Removed permissions INTERNET, READ_PHONE_STATE, and ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE from all Android builds. You must now opt-in to these permission via the build.settings file
Android: Removed support for SuperRewards. (It crashes on Android 4.x and there hasn't been a library update in 1.5 years)
Android: Selecting an image from the media.PhotoLibrary on the Kindle HD Fire does not return anything
Android: Trying to record on a device without a microphone caused an error. Now the application does not record anything when it detects that it is on a device without a microphone
Android: Using the audio player inside the media.playVideo's listener now correctly plays the audio
Android: When cancelAlert is called on an alert the event.action was clicked instead of cancelled.
Android: When resuming a video from the recent apps screen, the video position is where it left off from.
Android: When the app is resumed after it is suspended, alignment bounces around. For example if the yAlign value is top in config.lua and then the user presses the home button and resumes the app the content's position would have been in the middle. The next time they did that the content's position would have been at the top again
Core: Add Mac and Android support functions necessary for the solution to native textfields won't transition off screen
Core: Added ability to fetch targeted app store via system.getInfo(targetAppStore). Returns the same result as the store.target property, but more convenient because you do not have to require in the store library
Core: Added native.canShowPopup(name) which is mostly useful for mail and sms
Core: Don't wake up the physics world when collision listeners are added
Core: Fix base64 encoding/decoding of long strings
Core: Fixed bug where display.save() would not save to the system.CachesDirectory. (Would save to system.DocumentsDirectory instead)
Core: Fixed bug where object returned by display.newEmbossedText() return nil for its text property
Core: Fixed inconsistent text placement issue between different platforms when calling display.newText() with an empty string. (Note that you need to use the same font on all platforms to see this improvement. Text may still be a few pixels off on different platforms, but still a huge improvement compared to before)
Core: Line objects were not blending when blend mode was set to something other than normal. The blend mode is now correctly applied to line objects.
Core: Removed OpenFeint from license agreements. (OpenFeint is no longer supported)
Core: Removed spurious debug message on screen rotation
Core: Take the RenderingStream size into account when getting the font size from Lua
Core: The antialias setting in the config.lua file is now ignored. Antialiasing is now always disabled due to lack of consistent support and graphics glitches between devices
Core: Update DisplayObjects that are about to go offscreen
Graphics: Add ability to specify GL_LINEAR and GL_NEAREST via display.setDefault( key, value ). Keys are magTextureFilter and minTextureFilter. Values are linear and nearest. Once you change the default, a display.new* call will use the new default. However, you cannot change the texture's filter, once the image has been loaded the first time. If you use the image in other display objects, it will use the filter default from the first time the image was loaded
iOS: Add twitter as a type for native.showPopup()
iOS: Allows saving display objects to PNG files with alpha support
iOS: Change made to media.newRecording to prevent recording with unsupported media encoding. AIF is the only supported encoding type on iOS
iOS: Facebook support for Scrumptious example. facebook.showDialog() now supports place and friends pickers. These correspond to FBPlacePickerViewController and FBFriendPickerViewController
iOS: Fix system.openURL() to not display UI if custom url is not supported. This allows you to open things like Google Maps, but also handle the case where it will silently return false if the Google Maps app is not installed
iOS: Fix to properly load hash fragments in UIWebView (Note: Hash fragments do not dispatch listener events)
iOS: Fixed bug where display.statusBarHeight was always returning 20 on iOS devices, the correct pixel height is now returned for retina displays
iOS: Fixed native.newTextField() vertical text alignment so it matches Android. Added support for decimal numeric keyboard type for native.newTextField()
iOS: Fixed native.newWebView() gray loading screen offset issue
iOS: Fixed custom field in iOS push notifications
iOS: Fixed bug where native.newWebView() was not correctly handling transitions, height change, and scaling
iOS: Fixed incorrect auto-capitalization of email and url input
iOS: Removes dot files and dot directories from app builds on iOS
iOS, Mac: Fixed crash with strings containing certain high-bit characters
iOS, Mac: Removed spurious warning if 0 was used with display.newText() to indicate a width or height should be calculated
iOS: Temporarily removed Inneractive support due to UDID sunsetting
iOS: Replaced mapView:getAddressLocation() by mapView:requestLocation()
iOS: Reworked Facebook implementation to work better with FBConnect SDK v3.1.1. Verified against sample code and
iOS: System.getInfo( "deviceID" ) will return a different value from previous builds because Apple is officially deprecating the old API
iOS: This change adds unixTime to the returned parameters for GameCenter score requests. It is an additional parameter which is useful over the existing string formatted date parameter since this returns an integer in unix epoch time
iOS: This change moves Flurry analytics into a plugin, which is now optional for Enterprise. This also fixes an issue with analytics.init() causing a crash on app suspension in very specific instances through an upgrade to Flurry analytics SDK 4.1.0
iOS: Update Facebook SDK to 3.1.1.
iOS: Updated build client to know about iOS6.1
iOS: Video orientation in Portrait mode will now work on iPad as well
iOS: Video orientation was not automatically changing to support landscape or portrait mode
Mac/Win: Fix New Project for App
Mac/Win: Fixed Android build to not print Iconnone.png warnings. (Note that these warnings were harmless)
Mac/Win: Fixed bug where the Corona Simulator would return model name WFJWI instead of KFJWI for the Kindle Fire HD 9
Mac/Win: Removes dot files and dot directories from app builds on iOS
Mac/Win: Updated the build.settings file for all sample projects to include Android permissions INTERNET, READ_PHONE_STATE, or ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE if needed. (In preparation to remove all default Android permissions)
Physics: Added the ability to change the collision reference point and the ability to average collision points
Win: Added iPad retina app icons to all sample projects
Win: Added sample project Networking\Scrumptious
Win: Added sample project Notifications\GooglePushNotifications
Win: Added sample project Store\Licensing to demonstrate Google Licensing support
Win: Fixed bug where a touch moved event can occur without a began phase when making a selection in modal dialog
Win: Fixed bug where subscription text in Preferences dialog would get truncated on 32-bit Windows
Win: Fixed bug where de-auth can cause exception
Win: Modified Online Documentation menu items to open the browser to http://docs.coronalabs.com/api instead of the Resources web page
Win: Moved sample project Networking\InAppPurchase to Store\InAppPurchase
Win: Removed OpenFeint sample projects
Win: Removed sample project Credits\SuperRewardsSample
Win: Removes Spriteloq from windows installation
Win: Updated all sample projects to support the new widget library
Win: Updated Graphics\X-ray sample project

New in Solar2D 2011.505 (Jun 23, 2011)