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Corona SDK Mobile Game Development: Beginner's Guide

By : Michelle M Fernandez
Book Image

Corona SDK Mobile Game Development: Beginner's Guide

By: Michelle M Fernandez

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Corona SDK Mobile Game Development Beginner's Guide Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – posting scores using Facebook Connect


Facebook Connect is another way to post on the wall feed by using the native Facebook UI features. We'll be creating a different way to post messages and scores to the newsfeed. In order to see how Facebook Connect operates, you need to load the build to a device to view the results. It will not run in the simulator.

  1. In the Chapter 9 folder, copy the Facebook Connect project folder to your desktop. All the configuration, libraries, and assets needed are already included. You can download the project files that accompany this book from the Packt Publishing website.

  2. Create a new main.lua file and save it to the project folder.

  3. Set up the following variables at the beginning of the code:

    display.setStatusBar( display.HiddenStatusBar )
    
    local ui = require("ui")
    local facebook = require "facebook"
    
    local fbBtn
    local score = 100
  4. Create a local function called onFBTouch() with an event parameter. Add an if statement that contains event.phase =...