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How to properly require lua file?? (app crashes after apk packaging)
Apollo14
Member
Hi guys!
I have appConfig.lua file that contains:
And I have this line of code in my main.lua:
It works on gideros emulators (both PC and mobile).
BUT it crashes after packaging apk.
OMG it's so ugly, I came to know that it broke my release version for 10 days already and I didn't even know about it. App fell down in keyword rankings.
Why does working with gideros have to be so ugly?
How do we properly require such files?
I have appConfig.lua file that contains:
return { adTestingEnabled=false, forceDefaultSettings=false, --etc... } |
APP_CONFIG=require("appConfig") |
BUT it crashes after packaging apk.
OMG it's so ugly, I came to know that it broke my release version for 10 days already and I didn't even know about it. App fell down in keyword rankings.
Why does working with gideros have to be so ugly?
How do we properly require such files?
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It looks like it works in the player but in reality your file is loaded and executed twice. During export, gideros merges all lua files that have not been excluded into a single one, so require doesn’t work anymore.
Last note, always check your exported packages before pushing them to the stores. A player is close to the real thing, but has some specific code and initialization to make it communicate with the studio, obviously, and is not 100% the same as the autonomous version.
https://github.com/gideros/gideros/commit/595d346fa8602fa88634fe73a1eafa8fdf146229
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"What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months." - Fred Brooks
“The more you do coding stuff, the better you get at it.” - Aristotle (322 BC)
- do as you initially did, but mark your setting file ‘exclude from execution’
- Or just make its file name not ending in .lua and use dofile() to load it
- Use the dependency graph to have the settings file loaded first (I still need to check if it actually works)
Likes: Apollo14
https://github.com/MultiPain/Gideros_examples/blob/master/CraftTileClone/assets/init.lua
https://github.com/MultiPain/Gideros_examples/blob/master/CraftTileClone/assets/main.lua
I think "exclude from execution" will work well
I've also tried dofile("appConfig.txt"), but when we edit txt files in Gideros there's no convenient syntax highlight, editing lua-files is much more pleasant.
"What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months." - Fred Brooks
“The more you do coding stuff, the better you get at it.” - Aristotle (322 BC)
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