Code dependencies

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  March 2013 edited March 2013 Accepted Answer

  So by default Gideros executes all lua files on both players and in real app.
  We can assume that the order of execution is pretty random, but there are two things guaranteed:
  init.lua will always be executed first
  main.lua will always be executed last
  
  So the best practice is:
  to add all additional functionality and modifications to existing classes in init.lua
  do all initialization of app etc in main.lua (when all other code was already loaded)
  wrap the code in any other lua file in a scope as function, yet better create each lua file as a separate Gideros class, either it will be a scene shown in scene manager or some simple object represented by class, but there should not be some plain code executed in these files, only in main.lua.
  Thats the oop approach of Gideros.
  
  But of course, thats all can be configured:
  1) you can right click on any file and exclude it from execution, then it won't be executed automatically and you would have to require it.
  2) you can set code dependencies between two files, that would mean that you can set for specific lua file to be executed automatically, but only when your other specified lua file will be already executed.
  
  Hope that clears it up!
  

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• gingerbreadkids Member

  March 2013

  That's a nice simple piece of information @ar2rawseen - maybe should be added to the FAQ for new users?

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• amaximov Member

  March 2013

  Thanks for the explanation @ar2rawseen. Helps a lot!

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  March 2013

  I thought it was mentioned somewhere already.
  But yes you are right.
  Sometimes simple questions make great tutorials

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• perrochon Member

  May 2020

  A small clarification to the above for the next person who finds this thread and wonders why it doesn't work for their project...

  ar2rsawseen said:

  
  init.lua will always be executed first
  main.lua will always be executed last
  

  hgy29 said:

  Also those rules about main.lua and init.lua only apply to top level files, if you put them in sub directories, they lose their specificities.

  http://forum.giderosmobile.com/discussion/comment/62823/#Comment_62823
  
  

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