Android export and Lua-Plugins (GTween)

stetso

Hello,
I have a problem when exporting to Android Studio which I suspect has more to do with me not knowing how to export properly than with Gideros, I couldn't find a solution in the forums... Anyway, here goes: I try to export to Android Studio, using Gideros 2016.12 on Mac . The project uses the GTween plugin which I downloaded and included into the project (two lua files easing and GTween). When using the Player everything works fine, however, when exporting, I get the following "error":

/Applications/Gideros Studio/Gideros Studio.app/Contents/Tools/luac: cannot open lib/easing.lua: No such file or directory /Applications/Gideros Studio/Gideros Studio.app/Contents/Tools/luac: cannot open lib/gtween.lua: No such file or directory

... and some more, related to other Lua files I am requiring (lume.lua an inspect.lua). I put "error" into "" because it exports a project nonetheless which unfortunately crashes immediately on my device and in the emulator with

E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: GLThread 115 Process: com.my.app, PID: 2422 com.giderosmobile.android.player.LuaException: cannot open lib/easing.lua: No such file or directory

So the question: What am I doing wrong here? I am still trying to figure out how to use these type of plugins, so it might be related to the way I am including them into my project. Should I put GTween etc into some special folder?
Thanks in advance!

stetso

Ok, nevermind. I found the solution. I did not know that all lua-files need to be in a subdirectory of the .gproj-file. I had all modules that I would need across different projects in a centralized folder somewhere else and thought, it is enough to include them into the project from there. Apparently, that is not the case. I copied everything over and now it works fine.

*high-five-to-self-ignoring-the-simple-beginner-mistake*

pie

To use gtween and easing (and any other lua library that I know of) usually you just need to import existing files in your project and you're done.

[edit - I removed useless guessing since you found the solution]

stetso

Thanks for your reply. Yeah, that is what I thought as well, but apparently it only worked when the original files were also located in the directory. I imported them again from there and it worked. Dunno...

hgy29

it should have worked with just links, sounds like a bug to me!

stetso

Hmm... I tried to replicate the problem, but now it works also from the centralized folder. Strange... Most likely I messed something up the first time around. Still, it worked without problems in the player but did not export. If I stumble across the problem again, I will try to pay attention
Thanks for your help!

simwhi

Hi all,

I have just started to use Gideros 2017-04-1 to create a new Android Studio export. I have the same issue - the majority of the project Lua files do not get exported. I also tried the direct APK feature, but alas that fails too.

I was previously testing TTS using with a basic project, which worked fine. However, it only used a main.lua file.

I'll try moving the Lua source code into a separate folder to see if that works, as suggested by @stetso.

keszegh

hi, in newer gideros versions all files that are not excluded from execution are merged withthe main.lua file. i guess you can check this if you export without encryption.

simwhi

@keszegh OK. I've identified a fair amount of files that need to be excluded. Do you know the purpose of this change?

keszegh

see here, maybe @hgy29 can answer you.. http://giderosmobile.com/forum/discussion/comment/52032#Comment_52032

in any case i guess it does not change anything wrt behaviour, as all those merged files are executed anyway immediately.