Pölygamy: a collection of LÖVE helper libraries

[bartbes]

You won't lose the ability. (for now)

[pygy]

To run it, you must put the Polygamy folder wherever you want to, and

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require "path.to.Polygamy.init" 

It will create a global Polygamy object. From there, you can use it as described in the first post of this thread.

There were indeed stray files in the archive. I've uploaded a cleaned up version.

The next version, which I'm polishing right now[*], is more modular. The custom love.run is extracted as library and is optional for both the state and keyboard lib.

Actually, it is extremely similar to the normal love.run loop, except that you can insert, remove and switch callbacks at a predictable point in the loop, ensuring that all callbacks are consistent at any given time. Polygamy works without it, but it makes things more transparent and more efficient.

The next Polygamy is almost self contained.

• the keyboard lib relies on the presence of the love.keypressed() and love.keyreleased() callbacks.
• the state lib could relies only on love.update() and love.draw().
• the upcoming timer lib relies on love.timer.getTime().
• the upcoming soundtrack lib is a more invasive by design, but it only relies on love.sound.newSource, the presence of a metatable for source objects, source:getVolume and source:setVolume.

The libraries are completely independent, although there's an option to integrate the keyboard and the state library for convenience.

Edit: Refactoring done, the (upcoming) state library is love.run() agnostic.

[*] Lesson learned: never again will I let some half-refactored code rot for a few months.[/size]

[bartoleo]

Very good
Thanks a lot

[TimFuchs]

Pölygamy 0.4.1 doesn't work with Löve 0.8.0
It is easy to fix, just do the following:

in init.lua:

• replace handlers.q with handlers.quit
  add 'love.event.pump()' before 'for e,a,b,c in love.event.poll() do'
  replace 'a,b,c' with 'a,b,c,d in 'love.event.poll()' loop
  change '1' in love.timer.sleep( 1 ) to 0.001
  remove '..".lua"' from line 259 at 'require(Polygamy.path .."modules/" .. moduleIndex[module_] .. ".lua");'

in PolyKeyboard replace handlers.kp and handlers.kr with handlers.keypressed and handlers.keyreleased.

To make the example 'main.lua' work, also replace "love.event.push('q')" wint "love.event.push('quit')"

Hope that helps somebody

[pygy]

Wow!

Cool to know that someone is still using this :-)

I'll update the library, thanks for the report...