LÖVE

Hi,

I'm currently developing a little lua editor for iOS, and I would make it possible to launch our LÖVE games directly from within the app. To be able to do this, I must reset the game context and start a new UIViewController that hosts a new game instance with updated code.

Have you any clue on how to achieve such a thing ?

Thanks !

You can try That'll load the file and if it's a valid main file, that'll overwrite existing game state.

Umm, pretty sure that should be Without the Lua extension

Okay thanks guys!

That's a good starting point, but this will not prevent to have a full-screen app with game running at startup. I would like to start the game from my existing iOS app : imagine a button that would trigger the game launch for example.

LOVE's source already has code to do something like that, you can probably modify it or use it as an example to do what you want:

https://bitbucket.org/rude/love/src/aa7 ... ios.mm-205

It gets run as part of initialization in the C main() before the Lua instance is started:

https://bitbucket.org/rude/love/src/aa7 ... ove.cpp-74

It seems very interesting, thanks slime!

I'll dig into this code and let you know if I achieved what I want!