Handy launch.command

[sansa]

I've begun to set myself up learning love, in order to begin prototyping a series of possible ideas

When i work on any coding projects I tend to always get quite messy, with multiple copies of prototypes, so for my purpose i wanted a little generic launcher that would allow me to copy paste a whole love project, rename it, and it would automatically work whatever path it is in.

I'm sure people have already done this in the past, but I just thought i'd share it, since it might be handy to have in the wiki or something. Its just a very small tip i wanted to share, sorry if its too basic to warrant a forum thread etc.

For my mac os x, i stuck this in a file called launch.command

#!/bin/bash
SCRIPTPATH=`dirname "$0"`
exec /Applications/love.app/Contents/MacOS/love $SCRIPTPATH


then i made it executable by doing this in terminal
cd thepathtothedirectory
chmod +x launch.command

[Lafolie]

Or you could just add an alias to your bashrc / bash_profile.

[Jasoco]

I already do this:

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#!/bin/bash
~/Documents/Projects/LÖVE/Apps/love.app/Contents/MacOS/love "${0%/*}"

But only because I can't figure out how to edit my bash profile to make it work. This works fine.

[Nsmurf]

Not to start a flamewar, but if you use Vim, just type ":!love ."
It's like magic!

[Ranguna259]

Windows only:
Notepad++ run command

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"c:\your\path\to\love.exe" "$(CURRENT_DIRECTORY)"

That's what I use

[raidho36]

A simple batch file in game directory.

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"C:\Program Files (x86)\LOVE\love.exe" "%CD%"

[Nixola]

A simple batch file in game directory.

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"C:\Program Files (x86)\LOVE\love.exe" "%CD%"

A simpler batch file in game directory (I edited PATH though).

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love .