event.quit() [solved]

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drfractal
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event.quit() [solved]

Post by drfractal »

OK I am maybe dumb but in my code:

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love.update() 
       stage.update()
....  ......

function stage.update()
  if love.keyboard.isDown("z")
        
        print("goodbye")
        love.event.quit()
  end
...
why if i click z key I get the message "goodbye" BUT love not exit the game?
Is something about the right placement for calling an event like quit or what?
thank you
Last edited by drfractal on Mon Jan 27, 2020 12:43 pm, edited 1 time in total.
grump
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Re: event.quit()

Post by grump »

It will only not quit if you have defined love.quit and it retuns something else than false or nil. In all other cases, it should quit. Not immediately though, it will quit after the next main loop iteration.
drfractal
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Re: event.quit()

Post by drfractal »

i only use that quit in a menu button that i copied from someone else tutorial (in this case it works):

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  table.insert( buttons, newButton(
    "close game",
    function()
      love.event.quit(0)
    end  ))
is it that the overwrite you are talking about?
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raidho36
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Re: event.quit()

Post by raidho36 »

No. It's something like this:

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function love.quit ( )
...
return true
end
It shouldn't return anything, or it may return nil or false, to actually quit. Returning anything else will cancel the quit.
drfractal
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Re: event.quit()

Post by drfractal »

well quit() is only in those two places in the entire project... I have to look for something else.
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Re: event.quit()

Post by pgimeno »

There are several other things that can cause this (like calling love.event.poll yourself, or causing a hang before the next frame, or overriding love.run wrongly) but it's very hard to say if you don't show the code.
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