Setup/Install routine

Steven

Hi there,

i've a suggestion for the installation routine.
I think you should modify the parameters for the shell\open\command to add %*, this way the scripts can be started with additional paremeters.

As an alternative i suggest creating a simple setup routine (NSIS or Inno Setup).

Greetings.

Samir

Thank your for the suggestion.
Does it apply when launching the Lua scripts from the desktop or commandline ? How to provide the additional arguments using this method ?

Steven

Hi,

you can simply write it like this (excerpt from install.bat):

reg add "HKCU\Software\Classes\luafile\shell\open\command" /ve /d "\"%~dp0bin\luart.exe\" \"%%1\" %%*" /f >NUL

Mind the %%* at the end of the command.
I would suggest to add it to both commands, just like any other script interpreter does (look at Python after installation).

As an example: you have an editor written using the ui module, but it is not convinient to always run the script and select File->Open from the menu just to read some text file. Calling something like MyEditor.wlua "C:\Temp\test.txt" is much easier.

On my system i added .lua and .wlua to my %PATHEXT% environment variable, so that i can run my scripts directly by just typing the name in the commandline. Without these %%* that wouldn't be possible.

Greetings

Samir

Great ! I will include that in the next release 👌

Steven

Hi there,

what would you think about an installation routine for LuaRT?
If its something you find useful i can provide, btw. create something for you.

Greetings

Samir

That kind of help is appreciated 😄
I hope one day LuaRT will be mature enough to build an installer in LuaRT !

Steven

Hello,

i think i'm done with the setup.
What's the best way give it to you?

Currently its all on my svn server and not accessible from outside.

Greetings.

Samir

Thank you for your help !
You can send it to me by mail : [Login to see the link]

Regards.

cos00kun

hi all.. hi everyone... i found this site while searching for documents with lua and GUI on the internet. First of all, thank you very much for this good library.
I use notepad++ for lua programming and I run programs from there and see the results. However, with Notepad++, I save the following code in a program called "new_1.lua" and then this program
When I run luart with the yeni_1.lua command, I get the following error. what could be the reason for this?

local ui = require "ui"

-- create a simple window
local win = ui.Window("Picture.x sample", 600, 300)
local picture = ui.Picture(win, "examples/LuaRT.png", -76, 60)

-- shows the window
win:show()

-- update user interface and increase Picture horizontal position
repeat
ui.update()
picture.x = picture.x + 1
until not win.visible or (picture.x > 600)

C:\Users\CoCo\Desktop>luart yeni_1.lua
yeni_1.lua:2: module 'ui' not found:
no field package.preload['ui']
no file 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Lua\5.1\LuaRT\bin\lua\ui.lua'
no file 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Lua\5.1\LuaRT\bin\lua\ui\init.lua'
no file 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Lua\5.1\LuaRT\bin\ui.lua'
no file 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Lua\5.1\LuaRT\bin\ui\init.lua'
no file 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Lua\5.1\LuaRT\bin..\share\lua\5.4\ui.lua'
no file 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Lua\5.1\LuaRT\bin..\share\lua\5.4\ui\init.lua'
no file '.\ui.lua'
no file '.\ui\init.lua'
no file 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Lua\5.1\lua\ui.luac'
no file 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Lua\5.1\LuaRT\bin\ui.dll'
no file 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Lua\5.1\LuaRT\bin..\lib\lua\5.4\ui.dll'
no file 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Lua\5.1\LuaRT\bin\loadall.dll'
no file '.\ui.dll'

C:\Users\CoCo\Desktop>

Samir

Hi cos00kun,

Welcome to LuaRT Community and thank you for your feedback !

I think the problem is related to the luart.exe interpreter : the ui module is only available with wluart.exe, the windowed version of the LuaRT interpreter (since version 0.9.7, see this post : [Login to see the link])

Please try the following command and tell me if it works : wluart.exe yeni_1.lua

Another way to run the script with the wluart.exe interpreter, is to rename the file to yeni_1.wlua and double click on it on the Windows explorer.

Regards,

cos00kun

you are great .. thank you very much for your early reply.

cos00kun

currently worked. 🙂

I've just started to review your documents. You really explain it to us with a very clear and simple teaching. again so thanks ..
actually I am trying to write a campaign in DCS flight simulation with lua language. but I needed a GUI of lua language about another issue. I will continue to follow you often. Good night. See you soon.

Samir

You are welcome, glad to see it worked ! I hope you will enjoy using LuaRT !