love keeps crashing..

[TheBreadCat]

love crashes when i drag my LoveGame -> LÖVE.exe.
and it keeps doing it.
here is the source code:

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function love.load()
	imgx = 10
	imgy = 20
	image = love.graphics.newImage("cake.jpg")
	local f = love.graphics.newFont(12)
	love.graphics.setFont(f)
	love.graphics.setColor(0,0,0,255)
	love.graphics.setBackgroundColor(255,255,255)
end

function love.update(dt)
   if love.keyboard.isDown("up") then
      num = num + 100 * dt -- this would increment num by 100 per second
   end
end

function love.draw()
   love.graphics.draw(image, imgx, imgy)
   love.graphics.print("Click and drag the cake around or use the arrow keys", 10, 10)
end

function love.mousepressed(x, y, button)
   if button == 'l' then
      imgx = x -- move image to where mouse clicked
      imgy = y
   end
end

function love.focus(f)
  if not f then
    print("LOST FOCUS")
  else
    print("GAINED FOCUS")
  end
end

function love.quit()
  print("Thanks for playing! Come back soon!")
end

[TechnoCat]

What kind of crash?

[TheBreadCat]

What kind of crash?

first white window.
then it say that the program does not respond.
and it shut down.
ps: lol TechnoCat and BreadCat :p

[TheBreadCat]

i tested.
it works with:

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function love.draw()
    love.graphics.print("Hello World", 400, 300)
end

but when i add all the other functions it shuts down.

[Robin]

I see you use print() (I'm not talking about love.graphics.print() here). I think that if you run your game on Windows with console disabled and you try to print something, it could crash. Try running adding a file conf.lua with as contents:

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function love.conf(t)
    t.console = true
end

[bartbes]

I think that if you run your game on Windows with console disabled and you try to print something, it could crash

Actually, that doesn't matter, what does matter is that if it can't write to love's install dir it will crash, this should be fixed in 0.7.1.

[Robin]

I think that if you run your game on Windows with console disabled and you try to print something, it could crash

Actually, that doesn't matter, what does matter is that if it can't write to love's install dir it will crash, this should be fixed in 0.7.1.

I know, I just hoped it wouldn't crash if you ran it with a console so we could avoid the whole "make LÖVE's install dir writeable" issue.

[dschnare]

Booyah, thanks guys for clearing this up. I was getting rather annoyed.

Something I've noticed as well regarding the lua print() function. Calling print() outside of any love life-cycle methods (i.e. load, draw, update, etc) will crash love on Windows even when the Love install directory is writable. The moment I move the print() calls inside say love.load() then it traces perfectly to the console window as expected. If I put it back to say at the top of main.lua then it crashes every time.

The message I was testing was simply:

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print("hello")