Taking a leap towards LUA

fusioneko · Post by **fusioneko** » 05 Oct 2007, 16:25

I'm actually quite int ested in looking at how to learn LUA, however I downloaded the binaries from the LUA site but I don't know how to compile the source D: or well something. I just need a kick here and there, could you guys help me rather then throwing me to goto some other place. I rather ask a community Im sure that knows.

tombom · Post by **tombom** » 05 Oct 2007, 16:41

You don't need the binaries from the Lua site to use Lua in Spring.

fusioneko · Post by **fusioneko** » 05 Oct 2007, 16:43

Ok, Then Lua is not compiled in anyway?

BigHead · Post by **BigHead** » 05 Oct 2007, 16:56

No, you only need to put your .lua file into LuaUI/Widgets folder.

fusioneko · Post by **fusioneko** » 05 Oct 2007, 17:20

:) Thanks alot this helps, Im afraid in the Begginers FAQ It wasn't covered there you might want to make it more noticeable if its not in there. ^_^

AF · Post by AF » 05 Oct 2007, 18:13

Spring compiles it all for you when the mods loaded, just make sure your lua code has no bugs in it and your good to go.

fusioneko · Post by **fusioneko** » 05 Oct 2007, 18:49

:D thanks I think I'll look more in depth into it later when I can. I'll proabbly play arround with it, but I don't know how much I'll actually get done. I have to learn the language :D anyone know a good example to study off?

AF · Post by AF » 05 Oct 2007, 19:07

Look at CA for mod gadgets and look at various widgets.

Felix the Cat · Post by **Felix the Cat** » 05 Oct 2007, 21:29

AF wrote:Spring compiles it all for you when the mods loaded, just make sure your lua code has no bugs in it and your good to go.

Hmm.

What's a good way to test for bugs? Obviously you can't compile and run a Lua file made for Spring as it will have all sorts of unknown identifiers or whatever Lua calls undefined functions and variables.

quantum · Post by **quantum** » 05 Oct 2007, 21:45

You can type "/luaui reload" or ".luarules reload" for a quick check in-game. If you just need to check for syntax errors, you shouldn't have problems compiling the script. Here is the windows version of the compiler.

LordMatt · Post by **LordMatt** » 06 Oct 2007, 00:48

quantum wrote:You can type "/luaui reload" or ".luarules reload" for a quick check in-game. If you just need to check for syntax errors, you shouldn't have problems compiling the script. Here is the windows version of the compiler.

Better yet bind luaui reload to a key in uikeys.txt:

Code: Select all

unbind      Any+backspace  mousestate
bind backspace luaui reload

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Taking a leap towards LUA

Taking a leap towards LUA