corona-hack-pack 是一组说明、教程和代码示例，旨在帮助新手编码人员学习使用 Lua 和 Corona SD

# corona-hack-pack The corona-hack-pack is a collection of instructions, tutorials and code samples designed to help newbie coders learn the basics of scripting and game development using Lua and the Corona SDK. ##Install Lua The Corona SDK will install it's own private version of Lua so the following steps to manually install Lua are only necessary if you want to run and test Lua scripts at a command prompt or terminal. In other words, if you have no interest in running stand-alone Lua scripts for learning purposes and plan on writing all of your Lua code completely from within a Corona SDK project you do not need to manually install Lua as done here; you can simply jump straight to the section on installing the Corona SDK. ###Setup for Windows The latest installer for Lua on Windows can be found at [this GitHub page](https://github.com/rjpcomputing/luaforwindows/releases). Once there, find and click on the link that says [LuaForWindows_v5.1.4-50.exe](https://github.com/rjpcomputing/luaforwindows/releases/download/v5.1.4-50/LuaForWindows_v5.1.4-50.exe) to download the installer. Once installed you should be able to run the "lua" command from the Windows Command Prompt. To test your install, you can open a command prompt on Windows by clicking Start button, clicking All Programs, clicking Accessories, and then clicking Command Prompt. Once the Command Prompt window opens, you can type "lua" and press enter. ``` lua ``` You can also open a command prompt at a particular folder by pressing and holding the Shift key and then right clicking on the folder and then selecting "Open Command Window Here". This is very useful if you want to run Lua from a folder that already has some Lua scripts in it. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ###Install Lua on Mac OSX First off, go ahead and open up a terminal on your Mac by going to your Applications folder, and then opening the Utilities folder. Once there, open the Terminal application. Now, type "brew" and press enter to see if you have Homebrew installed. Homebrew is a package manager for OS X that can help us install other software tools and libraries for us. ``` $ brew ``` If brew is installed you should see something like this: ``` $ brew Example usage: brew [info | home | options ] [FORMULA...] brew install FORMULA... brew uninstall FORMULA... brew search [foo] brew list [FORMULA...] brew update brew upgrade [FORMULA...] brew pin/unpin [FORMULA...] ... ``` If you don't have Homebrew installed, install Homebrew by copying and pasting this into the terminal: ``` $ ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)" ``` Instructions for this were found [here](http://brew.sh/). Then, use Homebrew to install Lua in the terminal by typing: ``` $ brew install lua ``` Once installed you should be able to run the "lua" command from the terminal. ``` $ lua ``` If successful, you should see something like this in the terminal: ``` Lua 5.2.4 Copyright (C) 1994-2015 Lua.org, PUC-Rio > ``` This is the command prompt for the Lua interpreter, which will allow you to write and run Lua code in the terminal window. Hold down the "control" key and press the "C" key to exit the Lua interpreter and return to the terminal prompt. ##Install and setup the Sublime Text editor You can use any text editor you like for Lua or Corona SDK development, but Sublime Text 3 is the official editor used by Corona, so I highly recommend it if you simply have no preference of editor. With that said, the following instructions are only for setting up the Sublime Text 3 editor for Lua and Corona SDK development. [Download and install Sublime Text 3](http://www.sublimetext.com/3) Install the package manager **Package Control** for **Sublime Text 3** so we can install some other useful features for Sublime. 1. [Go here...](https://packagecontrol.io/installation) 2. Copy the Python script from the tab for "SUBLIME TEXT 3". 3. Launch Sublime 4. Go to the menu 'View > Show Console' to open Sublime's console. 5. Paste the code into the console of Sublime and hit enter. 6. Installation progress will be displayed in the lower left corner of Sublime. 7. Restart Sublime Use Package Control to install **Fix Mac Path** (**_This is only required if you're on a Mac._**) 1. Go to the menu 'Preferences > Package Control' 2. In the edit box type "Install Package" to find and select it. 3. In the edit box type "Fix Mac Path" to find and select it. 4. Installation progress will be displayed in the lower left corner of Sublime. 5. Restart Sublime Use Package Control to install **Lua Dev** 1. Go to the menu 'Preferences > Package Control' 2. In the edit box type "Install Package" to find and select it. 3. In the edit box type "Lua Dev" to find and select it. 4. Installation progress will be displayed in the lower left corner of Sublime. 5. Restart Sublime Use Package Control to install **Corona Editor** 1. Go to the menu 'Preferences > Package Control' 2. In the edit box type "Install Package" to find and select it. 3. In the edit box type "Corona Editor" to find and select it. 4. Installation progress will be displayed in the lower left corner of Sublime. 5. Restart Sublime -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following are optional packages for Sublime but are very useful for Lua development. Use Package Control to install **SublimeLinter** 1. Go to the menu 'Preferences > Package Control' 2. In the edit box type "Install Package" to find and select it. 3. In the edit box type "SublimeLinter" to find and select it. 4. Installation progress will be displayed in the lower left corner of Sublime. 5. Restart Sublime 6. [More info...](http://www.sublimelinter.com/en/latest/index.html) Use Package Control to install **SublimeLinter-Lua** 1. Go to the menu 'Preferences > Package Control' 2. In the edit box type "Install Package" to find and select it. 3. In the edit box type "SublimeLinter-Lua" to find and select it. 4. Installation progress will be displayed in the lower left corner of Sublime. 5. Restart Sublime 6. [More info...](https://github.com/SublimeLinter/SublimeLinter-lua) Use Package Control to install **SidebarEnhancements** 1. Go to the menu 'Preferences > Package Control' 2. In the edit box type "Install Package" to find and select it. 3. In the edit box type "SidebarEnhancements" to find and select it. 4. Installation progress will be displayed in the lower left corner of Sublime. 5. Restart Sublime 6. [More info...](https://github.com/titoBouzout/SideBarEnhancements) Use Package Control to install **BracketHighlighter** 1. Go to the menu 'Preferences > Package Control' 2. In the edit box type "Install Package" to find and select it. 3. In the edit box type "BracketHighlighter" to find and select it. 4. Installation progress will be displayed in the lower left corner of Sublime. 5. Restart Sublime 6. [More info...](https://github.com/facelessuser/BracketHighlighter) ##Install the Corona SDK Go to the [Corona SDK website](https://coronalabs.com/), sign up for a free account, and download the Corona SDK from [here](http://developer.coronalabs.com/user/login?destination=downloads/coronasdk). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ##List of Lua Videos ###Learning Lua - Ep 1 - Variables In this video we will actually start to learn Lua scripting using our new Lua & Corona SDK development environment. [Video Link](https://youtu.be/G8RUJxg1toU) Source Used: lua_1_variables.lua Keywords Used: local Functions Used: print(), type(), tonumber(), tostring() -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ###Learning Lua - Ep 2 - Tables In this video we will learn about Lua's most powerful data type, tables, and how they're used to hold and organize collections of other data types