embedding love in other window

[S-Rave]

Hello all, long time no see.

I want to embed a LÖVE player in a window other than the one in love.exe.
Is the code base designed for easy integration in other GUI tools, like Qt, wxWidgets etc?

If so, which classes are of interest?

Or maybe it's just a stupid idea to integrate an instantly updated player in another gui. Does the love player recognize that files have been changed while playing and inserts the updates the corresponding code blocks so you get instant feedback? (I mean, you use LuaJIT now, right? I don't know what implication this gives).

Because I remember in 0.4 where there was a restart command, which was removed some versions later for a "fast refresh".

(My main mission is to integrate löve in LightTable, if you have ever heard of it, or make a player with Runtime Compiled C++, however I'm unsure about code updates.)
(Sidenote: And what is liblove? I saw that it's in 0.9 but the liblove github readme just says "helper utilities" without specifying anything. )

(Also 5+ years a member! WOO! )

[slime]

I want to embed a LÖVE player in a window other than the one in love.exe.
Is the code base designed for easy integration in other GUI tools, like Qt, wxWidgets etc?

Not really, I don't think it was ever designed with that in mind. SDL has the function SDL_CreateWindowFrom, but LÖVE doesn't call it, and LÖVE uses SDL's OpenGL context creation API which isn't compatible with SDL_CreateWindowFrom yet (as of SDL 2.0.3) I think.

Or maybe it's just a stupid idea to integrate an instantly updated player in another gui. Does the love player recognize that files have been changed while playing and inserts the updates the corresponding code blocks so you get instant feedback? (I mean, you use LuaJIT now, right? I don't know what implication this gives).

LÖVE has the [wiki]love.filesystem.getLastModified[/wiki] function, which allows you to write code (for example, code to reload the file) which is executed when a file is updated, so yeah it can do that - there are a few libraries on the forums which take advantage of that I think. Here's one: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=77409

Sidenote: And what is liblove? I saw that it's in 0.9 but the liblove github readme just says "helper utilities" without specifying anything.

liblove is [wiki]love[/wiki] (the module) - it's a Lua-C library which gets required by the (very small) love executable. It's separate from the executable as of 0.9 so you can use love in another Lua interpreter. I think the liblove you've found on github is not related to the actual liblove.

[S-Rave]

Sweet, lume seems to be the thing I'm looking for! Thank you, slime. :]]]