To add to what BrotSagtMist said, values are optional in return statements in Lua and calls are the only things in Lua that can be both statements and expressions, thus the first print call here becomes part of the return statement. These examples don't work because the following statement is not a ...

it works fine . . . at least once. (...) What I understand is that return love.run() is not a root reboot, but a reboot whithin love.errorhandler which is not recursive itself. So the end of program happens. The call to love.run() does not restart anything as far as LÖVE is concerned, and is not im...

You're probably not too far off.

I've extended my initial example program with the concept of a world coordinate system, a movable player, and a camera that follows the player (in love.update). Also, screenToWorld and worldToScreen functions.

love.errorhandler is just supposed to be used for error reporting right before the game quits - not to restore or restart the state of the game. If you return a function (which the `return love.run()` line does) that function is supposed to just display the error. LÖVE doesn't expect the game to con...

Whenever I notice that what I'm writing is a bit sloppy or maybe belongs elsewhere, instead of fixing that issue right away I just add a "cleanup" comment and continue along. Sometimes I even intentionally write sloppy code with the intention of coming back later when I have a better under...

Setting animation to nil will release both the memory of the images and whatever memory Lua itself uses when the garbage collector runs, which could take a while before it happens. Calling :release() on the images first will immediately release the memory of the images (but the memory that Lua uses ...

Oh, yeah. That explains things. :d It looks like libTove.so isn't a Lua module, just a normal dynamic library, so that init.lua file is using ffi.load to load it instead of require(). Anyway, changing libPath to the correct path ought to solve the problem (i.e. point to love.filesystem.getSaveDirect...

Something like this: local contents = love.filesystem.read("thefile.so") -- Read from the .love file. love.filesystem.write("thecopy.so", contents) -- Write to save directory. local library = require("thecopy") -- Will try to load the module from the save directory, amo...

Looking at the stack traceback, the error is happening somewhere in newFont(). In the addCheckbox function, print all the arguments to see what they actually are - pfont must have the wrong value.

well, thanks, it worked! now i need to stream the video using videostream because it's just showing me a black screen. Using a VideoStream object anywhere makes no difference (see the reply below). The issue is elsewhere. You'll have to describe what exactly you're doing (with code) and what you've...