Hooking into loves events

[JayKyburz]

Hey all, I've just started playing with Love and have been reading the forums and tutorials for a while. I don't have any blocking issues but just to ask some questions here on the forums in case I missed a few things on the way.

At the moment I have an update function in my main.lua file that then calls an update function in all the child game objects. Same for draw and even load. I was about to start pushing other events down to all my objects so they can handle input.

Is it possible to automatically resister all my update functions to be called when the love.update event is called?

[zorg]

there's a gamestate library that gives you that kind of functionality as an option: https://hump.readthedocs.io/en/latest/gamestate.html
Although i'm not sure if i would treat game objects as gamestates... semantically i mean; i'd probably do something like this:

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function love.update(dt)
  yourupdatefunc()
end

local function yourupdatefunc()
  -- your game objects being in one table is the assumption:
  for i,v in ipairs(gameobjects) do
    v:update()
  end
end

[JayKyburz]

Thanks zorg. Thats pretty much what I am doing now.