application:setScaleMode options in reference manual don't exist?

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  March 2014 Accepted Answer

  Hello @jtly let me try to clarify
  
  So

  Application

  is a class, while

  application

  is an automatically created instance of the

  Application

  class and stored in variable named

  application

  .
  
  Basically somewhere in the init code we have something like that:

  application = Application.new()

  which creates global variable application for your use
  
  Now there are instance methods and static methods. Instance methods need an instance to be used and they are written using colon ":"
  
  So you can do this:

  print(application:getFps())

  But you can't do this:

  print(Application:getFps())

  But accessing static properties using dot "." can be done through both class and instance, so both would work

  print(Application.PORTRAIT) print(application.PORTRAIT)

  Now about those specific values, yes it seems it is a bug. If you see there are no properties like that in the list (which is generated automatically from the code), only mention of them is at

  Application:setScaleMode

  method.
  
  I will add it as a bug and will be fixed in next version, for now, you can use plain values as "noScale", "center", etc to change scale mode

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• SinisterSoft Maintainer

  March 2014

  I was just about to post this reply!

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• jtly Member

  March 2014

  Thanks for the clarification on Application vs. application. Totally makes sense.
  
  I just started with Gideros yesterday and I'm liking it a lot so far - especially the ability to so quickly and easily push code to the mobile device over wifi. That is a huge productivity boost.

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