quit("restart") message passing

[fendrin]

Hello,
is it possible to pass information to the next lua state when doing a restart with love.event.quit("restart") ?

My game comes with a launcher and passing information by file or the clipboard does not sound like a good solution.

Regards, Fabi

[grump]

I'm pretty sure you can't pass information directly to the new state.

Passing by file sounds like a workable solution to me.

[fendrin]

Thank you.

[AuahDark]

It's sort of possible in pre-11.3 by exploiting bug in named Channels but it's patched out. However, the development branch which is supposedly to be next major version of LOVE already have love.event.restart(somevalue) and there will be love.restart variable that contain the previously passed value.

[fendrin]

It's sort of possible in pre-11.3 by exploiting bug in named Channels but it's patched out. However, the development branch which is supposedly to be next major version of LOVE already have love.event.restart(somevalue) and there will be love.restart variable that contain the previously passed value.

Sounds exactly like what I need.
Thank you for keeping me up to date.

May I suggest to also allow altering the command line parameters (the parameter to the love.load and the global 'arg') which are passed to the restarted lua host?

Regards, Fabi

[AuahDark]

Note: It's not possible in 11.3 without using temporary file. The naming channel method I described is fixed in 11.3.

For command-line altering, no.