Testing Different Projects

[LedLoaf]

Hello,

So I am using ZeroBrane Studio Lua IDE, was really easy to set up. This actually might be a question for them but I thought I'd see if I could get some help here. So you have to have main.lua as your main file correct? I've been doing these tutorials and I like to make new files and save the previous before additions so I can always backtrack the progression of how I ended up at this current source.

How can I test different files without renaming each file to main.lua? I hope that makes sense. For example collision_circles.lua and arrow_follow.lua . Is there a more simple way of running each individual file, without renaming them to main.lua? I'm still learning how to navigate around Lua, so I'm assuming there is a way to just run various lua examples from a main.lua.

Thanks, have a great day.

[ReFreezed]

Just have a single line in main.lua where you require() the file you want to run.

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require("collision_circles")

[LedLoaf]

So 2 files have love.load, load.update, load.draw that will still work?

[darkfrei]

So 2 files have love.load, load.update, load.draw that will still work?

Something like

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require ("main-old")
-- require ("main-new")

But normally just one folder for every project.

[ReFreezed]

Only the files you require() will actually run, so if you only call require("collision_circles") in main.lua then it doesn't matter what arrow_follow.lua or any other file contains as those will not run.

main.lua:

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-- Only uncomment one line:
-- require("collision_circles") -- Uncomment to run the collision_circles.lua file.
-- require("arrow_follow") -- Uncomment to run the arrow_follow.lua file.

collision_circles.lua:

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function love.draw()
	love.graphics.print("collision_circles!!!")
end

arrow_follow.lua:

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function love.draw()
	love.graphics.print("arrow_follow!!!")
end

[togFox]

I think most ppl just have different folders for different projects and each has a main.lua.