LÖVE

For any Mac users that use (or want to use) TextMate, along with the Lua bundle you can add a new bundle for Love through the bundle editor:


Just create a new Bundle through the Bundle Editor, then add a command (Run) and a quick and dirty shell script, a key equivalent and you're off and running.

This way you can just invoke your key sequence to run your game. I've only just started with Love, but if I continue I'll probably extend TextMate to be a suitable environment.

I went the extra mile and zipped it up into a tidy package which you can install by double-clicking on it. Enjoy.

Even better. Thanks

I'm trying to improve this script to be able to read the print()ed meaages in the console.

I've added the love binary to my path, so I can use love $TM_DIRECTORY instead of open love.app $TM_DIRECTORY.

The best I could find so far is

love $TM_DIRECTORY > $TM_DIRECTORY/log.txt

then I can open a terminal window and use tail -f log.txt to see the output.

The problem is that LÖVE buffers it's output and spits it out in one batch when you close it. It makes it hard to interact with your script... Lua script don't exhibit that behaviour, so ti seems to be LÖVE-related.

Does someone see a solution?

On linux I'd do:
xterm -e love $TM_DIRECTORY

so I guess you can do something similar on OSX.

xterm -e love $TM_DIRECTORY

It works as is :-)

I hadn't thought of using xterm, I was trying to get it to work in iTerm and Terminal.app.

Thanks :-)

No problem.