You could try using IUPLua, a GUI toolkit. It has the Scintilla library built in, which provides text editing functionality. Here is the example from the manual showing a basic source code editor: http://webserver2.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/iup/en/ctrl/images/iupscintilla.png http://webserver2.tecgraf.puc-...

You can do things such as change the drawing color outside of love.draw. You just have to do the actual drawing in love.draw.

I'm no expert, but for a painting program I would use canvases, although they don't work on really old/weak computers.

https://www.love2d.org/wiki/canvas

vrld wrote:

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function newCounter()
    local i = 0
    return function(inc)
        i = i + (inc or 1)
        return i
    end
end

a, b = newCounter()
print(a(3)) --> 3
print(a(), b()) --> 4, 1

b is nil, so that last line would error.

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Using tables is very slow, as seen here: http://code.google.com/p/lua-vec/wiki/Benchmarks . Is there a way to build a modified version of lua and then make a modified Love2d? Did you notice that luajit is faster than lua-vec? Just use luajit-based love2d executables (as I always do). Yeah, I did no...

If you are using 2d vectors only, you can get away with using them as pairs of integers. So for example, a function that accepts two vectors looks like this: function sumVectors(x1,y1,x2,y2) -- do something here end There's very little overhead compared to using native vectors, and the gc will perf...

Thanks for the suggestions, I'll try them out. I think they'll suit my needs.

Using tables is very slow, as seen here: http://code.google.com/p/lua-vec/wiki/Benchmarks . Is there a way to build a modified version of lua and then make a modified Love2d?

I'm making a simple physics engine with Love2d to learn some physics. A lot of the calculations involve vectors, so I want to have vectors in Love2d. I know you can simulate vectors with just lua, but the performance isn't good. I found lua-vec http://code.google.com/p/lua-vec/ , which looks simple ...