Lua Programming Help Thread

Look at past examples of programs, go to the tutorials which psp millionaire wrote. Evil mana i think they're called.
You write it in a text program like notepad, or you can use other programs which give you a bit more help like notepad++ .
That should get you started.

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Zitat von Sousanator

so io.lines reads all the lines right??
but i still dont understand how to do get each line as a new varible

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No. If you read it better, it says that everytime you use io.lines it reads the next line. Thats why they use a for loop in the example to read all the lines one at a time. That s exactly what you want.

So you could do this:

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n=1
for lines in io.lines(filename) do
line[n]=lines
n=n+1
end

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Is there a Lua-specialized-notepad app? Like the TTLDE in Lua OS?

Edit - I found one, - http://www.luaedit.net/ -, but I'm still looking for one that looks/works more like TTLDE.

I use ConTEXT its also free. You can download all sorts of context highlighters also LUA.

hi, can anyone tell me the commands for the following;
to pause the game
to exit the game to luaplayer (on the psp)
Pm me the anwser or reply here thanks

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hi, can anyone tell me the commands for the following;
to pause the game
to exit the game to luaplayer (on the psp)
Pm me the anwser or reply here thanks

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to pause, pretty simple actually. its just a function.

Example:

Code:

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function pause()

  white = Color.new(255, 255, 255)

      while true do

        screen:clear()

        pad = Controls.read()

        screen:print(x, y, "Press Start to continue", white)

        if pad:start() then
            break
        end

        screen.flip()
        screen.waitVblankStart()
      end
end

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To quit back to luaplayer you just make a variable that will be your 'control' of whether or not the game will be 'on'.

Example:

Code:

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quit = false
[functions]
[game]

--in all your functions and in the main loop, you put:
if quit == true then
break
end

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To Altair: Thanks!

2 days ago, I had no idea what you were talking about...

now, i understand it all :)

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Zitat von Tritoch

2 days ago, I had no idea what you were talking about...

now, i understand it all :)

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you mean me?

thanks

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Zitat von EminentJonFrost

you mean me?

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i meant all lua coders... :icon_razz