Request: Folder Shortcut Drag 'n Drop

[mastastealth]

Something that would help me out while coding Lua would be for a folder shortcut on my desktop be drag 'n droppable on to the LÖVE shortcut, and launch like usual. It would cut another step off digging into my coding folder, having to maintain an explorer window open, and Alt-tabbing back and forth while I change code.

[Xfcn]

1) Create a Text Document in your LOVE directory where LOVE EXE is located. Name this "draglove.bat"

2) Edit said "draglove.bat" file with Notepad. Please place the following into the document:

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love.exe %1

*Please note: I don't know the name of the love.exe so please replace love.exe with something else if that is not the main EXE filename. I also don't know if there are miscellaneous commands that have to be entered to get Love to run.

3) Create a shortcut to this "draglove.bat" on the desktop. Et voila. It's simple, you see, when you employ the right tools.

Hope that was helpful.

[Kaze]

1) Create a Text Document in your LOVE directory where LOVE EXE is located. Name this "draglove.bat"

2) Edit said "draglove.bat" file with Notepad. Please place the following into the document:

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love.exe %1

*Please note: I don't know the name of the love.exe so please replace love.exe with something else if that is not the main EXE filename. I also don't know if there are miscellaneous commands that have to be entered to get Love to run.

3) Create a shortcut to this "draglove.bat" on the desktop. Et voila. It's simple, you see, when you employ the right tools.

Hope that was helpful.

Unnecessary, a simple shortcut to the love executable does the exact same. (And has a sexy icon.)

[Xfcn]

Fine, be accurate. See if I care. I'll just sit here and use Linux, as usual.

[mike]

What I want to see (why am I adding suggestions to my own forum???) is the ability to run LÖVE and then click-and-drag a .love file (or folder, for that matter) into the game window which will cause it to kill any running game and start that one. I am not sure how SDL handles dragging and dropping and whether it is possible to do on Win/Linux/Mac without having to do too much platform-specific coding.
Has this been discussed before? I think I have talked to rude about it...

[rude]

Not supported by SDL, as far as I know.

It has been discussed; it would involve way too many dependencies to be worth it.

[surtic]

I have another suggestion.

How about love.exe doing the following:
Check if the last path element (without extension) of argv[0] is "love". If so - behave as normal. Otherwise, if argv[0] is a/b/c/d/efg[.exe] then take a/b/c/d/efg.love (file) and a/b/c/d/efg (directory) as candidates, in that order. If any of them exists, run them.

That way, one can develop as usual (using love or love.exe), but to distribute (or debug) the code, one can rename love to "game" (or "game.exe") and a double click would just run the game. Even a shortcut would work in that case.

If that suggestion sounds reasonable, that how about trying to load "game.ico" as the icon of the game (if it exists), otherwise using the standard love icon?

[Merkoth]

I've already suggested something similar. You can hack it yourself if you aren't afraid of recompiling stuff