Some questions about love.thread

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louie999
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Some questions about love.thread

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In the game I'm making I want it to be that people can mod my game, but I want to restrict the use of some functions by the user, can I do that by using love.thread?

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fun = true
school = true

function isItFun()
    if school then
       fun = false
    end
    if not fun then 
       me:explode()
    end
end
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Nixola
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Re: Some questions about love.thread

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I think a combination of [wiki]love.filesystem.load[/wiki] and [manual]setfenv[/manual] would be what you need.
lf = love.filesystem
ls = love.sound
la = love.audio
lp = love.physics
lt = love.thread
li = love.image
lg = love.graphics
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T-Bone
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Re: Some questions about love.thread

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love.thread could be used like that, yes. The mod's code would run on a thread, and is allowed to affect the game code only via a well-defined thread-communication API. It's not the first thing I'd try, but it could work. There are some security issues you might want to think about; you probably want some kind of sandboxing anyway and then I don't think the separate thread would matter as much.
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