LÖVE

There are a lot of ways you can go using a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor. GTK+ has Glade, GTK# has Stetic, Qt has Qt Creator. I'd say give Qt a try, since it has a bit more financial backing than GTK, and thus a lot more investment in making it easy to learn (Qt is currently funded by Nokia; it still uses a variety of open-source licenses, though).

nevon wrote:I would not recommend using Löve for general application development. The lack of a proper GUI toolkit alone will make you tear your hair out, and it won't behave like a native application.

For me, the cross platform ability of love2d (develop on linux, run on windows) and the easy way to distribute love with code are good enough reasons to use love2d for more than just games. So, I would also love to have no restriction on file operations in lua (if the user allows it in his .rc file).

nevon wrote: There are so many better options. Here are just a few: Python+GTK, PyQt, QtLua.

I would recommend:
https://github.com/mkottman/lqt
http://lua-gtk.luaforge.net/en/index.html
http://oproj.tuxfamily.org/wiki/doku.php?id=lgob
http://www.murga-projects.com/murgaLua/index.html
http://luagl.sourceforge.net/ (if looking for 3D)

and more from http://lua-users.org/wiki/GraphicalUser ... ceToolkits

Well, lack of of a meaningful file/folder browser in Lua 5.x seems to go hand-in-hand with Love not supporting anything of the kind. Apparently you can tunnel through some browser program with os.execute, but that's pretty hacky, not to mention way above my level.

MarekkPie wrote:There are a lot of ways you can go using a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor...

Excellent! I didn't think WYSIWIG programs would be of any use for anything other than template projects, but maybe times change.

miko wrote:I would recommend...

Thanks a lot, too! With luck, maybe there's a comprehensive package among all this stuff for someone my level.

My first thought when I saw this thread:



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