Interactive Löve?

[parallax7d]

Is there a way to load love in the Lua interactive interpreter, and run run, so you can basically play with love in real time? Or something? I love being able to test things rapidly in the Lua command line, was hoping to do something similar with Love?

[Ranguna259]

You mean changing the main.lua and then the game would reload itself ?
If so the there are a bunch of options you can choose from, one of them is the LoveDebug library.

[slime]

There is also the debug.debug() Lua function, which will pause the game and let you use stdin from your terminal to execute Lua, until you type 'cont'.

[murks]

ZeroBrane Studio has support for this: http://notebook.kulchenko.com/zerobrane ... -with-love

[Roland_Yonaba]

I remember a similar topic was previously discussed on these forums. Find it here : hot reload. It contains some interesting links and resources.
But The great Murks is right, live coding is probably what you are seeking for.

[gestaltist]

Not quite what you are asking about but I like Love Fiddle to quickly test stuff:
http://lovefiddle.com

[dusoft]

Is there a way to load love in the Lua interactive interpreter, and run run, so you can basically play with love in real time? Or something? I love being able to test things rapidly in the Lua command line, was hoping to do something similar with Love?

Simple:
1) Tie reload of the code to some key = e.g. space or enter
2) Put this code into your Love file:

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   package.loaded[state]=false
   require(state)

where state is the file for reload. e.g. if states=main then: require("main")

call that after some keypress, eg. in

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function love.keyreleased(key)
end

first line deletes the meta information from packages table of lua (blanks record), second line reloads the file.
i have used this approach in my state manager (one file = one state):
http://www.ambience.sk/love2d-a-state-s ... class-lua/

this will reload the code on space / enter key press (if there are any other require statements in the main.lua, then you need to re-require them as well)

[bartbes]

And there's repler.
You could also start a lua interpreter and load love from it, but that's a more advanced topic..