Hello....

[powermousey]

Hello,

I'm the power mousey. I came across this LOVE 2d game engine while browsing and checking out
on Google about 2d game programming tutorials. And I must say that I do like LOVE.
As much as I like and enjoy watching the LOST tv series, I'm LOST on LOVE.
I know no nothing of SDL, nor even of LUA.

So please be pateint and understanding when I ask these noobish questions which could of been asked
and answered before. Also, I come from another world of programming in and with Blitz Basic, Dark Basic Professional,
Cobra, and some 3d Game Studio.

Here are some questions:

I'm sensing that I have to learn LUA, or at least a familarity of some of the commands and functions.
And that I can use them in and with LOVE. Is this correct?

Without getting bogged down and learning this LEIF GUI Library(not just yet), what are some input
commands I can use for both text and numbers? Or do I have to create my own user input routines?
Just like in Cobra

When using the LOVE engine, how do I call my own routines and functions?
I could not find any information in the docs. Unless I skipped over them.

Will there be more commands and functions added in future versions of LOVE?

Thank you.

[bartbes]

I'm sensing that I have to learn LUA, or at least a familarity of some of the commands and functions.
And that I can use them in and with LOVE. Is this correct?

Yes, you do have to learn Lua, or get familiar with it.

Without getting bogged down and learning this LEIF GUI Library(not just yet), what are some input
commands I can use for both text and numbers? Or do I have to create my own user input routines?
Just like in Cobra

You have to write your own. (use the keypressed and keyreleased functions or love.keyboard.isDown)

When using the LOVE engine, how do I call my own routines and functions?
I could not find any information in the docs. Unless I skipped over them.

Call them whatever you like. Most people do everything in global namespace and as long as you don't have conflicting names, it doesn't matter.

Will there be more commands and functions added in future versions of LOVE?

There should be, however rude will have to answer to that.

[osgeld]

When using the LOVE engine, how do I call my own routines and functions?
I could not find any information in the docs. Unless I skipped over them.

just to expand on this a bit more, in your global namespace its just

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function foo(optional vars)
    code
end

then when i want to use it

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foo()

and heres a link to the plain basic lua manual but when using a lua api you will be mostly using their functions for the majority of your scripts

http://www.lua.org/manual/5.1/

[powermousey]

thank you bartbes and osgeld.

and hey, that was going to be my next question osgeld.
thanks again.