Why does this code not work?

[Sosolol261]

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function love.draw()
    function mainBackground()
        love.graphics.setBackgroundColor(50, 50, 75)
        love.graphics.rectangle('fill', 0, 520, 1280, 200)
    end
end

Every time I run this code, I get a blackscreen.. The console doesn't tell me anything and the debugger can't find anything too.
I don't think i did anything wrong.

[Azhukar]

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function love.draw()
        love.graphics.setBackgroundColor(50, 50, 75)
        love.graphics.rectangle('fill', 0, 520, 1280, 200)
end

This will work.

What your code did previously was declare function mainBackground each frame (each time love.draw was called) and then do nothing with it.

[Sosolol261]

ah ok thanks

[davisdude]

Alternatively, you could do

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function mainBackground()
    love.graphics.setBackgroundColor(50, 50, 75)
    love.graphics.rectangle('fill', 0, 520, 1280, 200)
end

function love.draw()
    mainBackground()
end

[MarkSill]

Or, if you really, really, want to:

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function love.draw()
    function mainBackground()
        love.graphics.setBackgroundColor(50, 50, 75)
        love.graphics.rectangle('fill', 0, 520, 1280, 200)
    end
    mainBackground()
end