request. IMAGE instead of USERDATA

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whiteland92
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request. IMAGE instead of USERDATA

Post by whiteland92 »

if you are using "type(image)" it return "userdata", would it be possible change it to "image" ?
and is it possible to load images from a url, without saving it to your pc?

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local http = require"socket.http" 

http.request{
  url = "http://i.imgur.com/YGmjfbG.jpg",
   sink = function(chunk, err)
      if chunk then
          f = love.filesystem.newFile("cat.png")
          f:open('a')
          f:write(chunk)
          f:close()
      end
      return 1
   end
}
error(type(love.graphics.newImage("cat.png")),2,love.filesystem.remove("cat.png"))
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Re: request. IMAGE instead of USERDATA

Post by Nixola »

You can use [wiki] love.filesystem.newFileData[/wiki] for the latter.
lf = love.filesystem
ls = love.sound
la = love.audio
lp = love.physics
lt = love.thread
li = love.image
lg = love.graphics
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Re: request. IMAGE instead of USERDATA

Post by whiteland92 »

and so it does. thanks :D
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Re: request. IMAGE instead of USERDATA

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For the former, using [wiki]Object:type[/wiki] instead of lua's type function would be the solution.
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Re: request. IMAGE instead of USERDATA

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well that was fast and easier then i though it would be. thank you so much. both of you :awesome:

works like a charm :D

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local http = require"socket.http" 

local data = love.graphics.newImage( love.filesystem.newFileData( http.request("http://i.imgur.com/YGmjfbG.jpg") , "" , "file" ) )

error(data:type(),2)

--> Error: Image
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Re: request. IMAGE instead of USERDATA

Post by T-Bone »

One thing that would be useful however, was if Lua's error messages would say the Löve type name it was expecting. So if you did

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love.graphics.draw("cat.png", 10, 10)
You'd get an error saying "expected Drawable, got string" instead of the current "expected Userdata, got string".

Maybe that'd be very hard to implement?
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Re: request. IMAGE instead of USERDATA

Post by slime »

It already does that:

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love.graphics.draw("cat.png", 10, 10)
LÖVE wrote:Error: main.lua:1: bad argument #1 to 'draw' (Drawable expected, got string)
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Re: request. IMAGE instead of USERDATA

Post by whiteland92 »

one problem i found is that if you are using Löve ":type()" on string,number,table.... it crashes the program.

example

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local text = "Hello World!"
local textType = text:type()

-- this will fail and "blue screen"  --> Main.lua 2: attempt to call method 'type' (a nil value)
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Re: request. IMAGE instead of USERDATA

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That's to be expected since löve doesn't modify the metatables for basic types (if they have/support one anyway), so it does not add type to them as a callable function.
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Re: request. IMAGE instead of USERDATA

Post by Robin »

You can use this function for that:

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function realType(obj)
    return obj.type and obj:type() or type(obj)
end
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