Question

I’m creating an interactive book for tablets with Corona SDK.

The design has a full screen image, with scrolling text overlaid to one side.

I started using widget.newScrollview but it seems very restricted. So far it seems you have to have a white background, which is kinda killing the aesthetic.

Anybody know a work around for the background, or an alternate way to deal with the large amount of scrolling text?

I was thinking about making it a series of images, but I’ve concerns with memory and the quality of the font when scaled up for iPad 3 etc.

Answer 1

local scrollView = widget.newScrollView{
        top = myTop, left = myLeft,
        width = someWidth, height = someHeight,
        bgColor = { 255, 255, 255, 210 },   --set the RGBA background color.
    }