LÖVE

i was wondering if there are any projects to create a love IDE. the only thing i don't like about love is that i have to drag a folder onto the desktop everytime i want to test it. i could make a simple IDE but nothing fancy. if i made it, it would be an editor with syntax highlighting, a way to manage project folders, zip the files into a .love file, and run it. i was wondering if there was anything anyone was doing that would be better than my minimalist IDE (my hypothetical IDE)

ishkabible wrote:i was wondering if there are any projects to create a love IDE.

Yes. Many of them. All have perished. (EDIT: another LÖVE IDE topic, in which I've listed other IDE projects.)

ishkabible wrote:the only thing i don't like about love is that i have to drag a folder onto the desktop everytime i want to test it.

It would be easier to run LÖVE from command line, that's how I and many others do it. Another option would be to make your editor run it, but whether that's possible depends on the editor you use.

im using SciTi right now as its my favorite Lua Editor. can SciTi call the command line? moving the folder is easier to me that using command line so i would like to now that SciTi could do this. ill look into it real quick, please tell me if you know any thing.

yep, SciTi has a property's file for each language it supports, all i had to do was change it to pass my project to love when i ran it. this is perfect!! however everytime i take on a project with Lua or Love i will have to change it

ishkabible wrote:this is perfect!! however everytime i take on a project with Lua or Love i will have to change it

No, you don't.
See http://love2d.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1037 for details.

ishkabible wrote:i was wondering if there are any projects to create a love IDE. the only thing i don't like about love is that i have to drag a folder onto the desktop everytime i want to test it. i could make a simple IDE but nothing fancy. if i made it, it would be an editor with syntax highlighting, a way to manage project folders, zip the files into a .love file, and run it. i was wondering if there was anything anyone was doing that would be better than my minimalist IDE (my hypothetical IDE)

Or perhaps someone could write a simple Python Gedit extension to allow for the execution of scripts through a drop-down menu of applications.

I have a key binding for doing just that: ALT-TAB , UP , ENTER

Works in both linux and windows. You only need to have a console on the game folder with love . on its history.

kikito wrote:I have a key binding for doing just that: ALT-TAB , UP , ENTER

Works in both linux and windows. You only need to have a console on the game folder with love . on its history.

Nearly the same as me, except I press left mouse button instead of up and then drag it down

This takes like <1 second, I don't see what's wrong with it?