Why doesn't text change in Corona SDK?

Question

Corona SDK

I analyzed an example from the official Corona documentation (working with text). Wrote like this:

local weightGroup = display.newGroup()
local myWeight = display.newText(weightGroup, "MyText", display.contentCenterX, -7, 'SuezOne', 42):setFillColor(186/255, 98/255, 98/255)
myWeight.text = "Kek"

It gives me an error:

08:57:31.409  \main.lua:3: attempt to index local 'myWeight' (a nil value)
08:57:31.409  stack traceback:
08:57:31.409  	\main.lua:3: in main chunk

What could be the problem and how to solve it?

Answer 1

setFillColor() does not return an object. Divide into two lines - creating an object and applying color. Then it will work.