Running a .love file inside of another .love file

[Le_juiceBOX]

Hi! Thanks for looking into my problem!

I have a love file inside of another love file (for 2 windows)

How do i run that love file? I have looked at the wiki for love.filesystem.load() but i wasnt sure on how exactly to use it.

Thanks for helping!

[zorg]

You can't do that.

Elaboration: You can have two separate projects, and run them at the same time, that would communicate through messages or whatever, but wanting one project to have two windows is not possible.

That said, you could unpack the inner .love file (or just name it a zip or something) into your outer project's save directory, then execute that in some way, that i don't know about.

[alloyed]

Or, you could have one project that does two things, so for example:

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function love.load()
    for _, a in ipairs(arg) do
        if a == "--program1" then
            require "program1.main"
        elseif a == "--program2" then
            require "program2.main"
        end
    end
end

and then to run both you'd just have a script that runs "love . --program1" and "love . --program2" simultaneously.

[zorg]

Yep, alloyed's solution seems the cleanest, i'd use that.

[Le_juiceBOX]

Yep, alloyed's solution seems the cleanest, i'd use that.

thanks!

[s-ol]

You can't do that.

does this not still work? https://github.com/adonaac/blog/issues/6

[zorg]

You can't do that.

does this not still work? https://github.com/adonaac/blog/issues/6

Keep reading that, and you'll find that adnzzzz... mentions that
1. The updater is a separate project, and
2. The actual game is contained in a file inside the updater's save directory.
(3. lfs.mount iirc can't mount anything from within the .love file itself)

I was referencing the fact that you can't execute one love file from within another; i did suggest other solutions that should work.

[s-ol]

You can't do that.

does this not still work? https://github.com/adonaac/blog/issues/6

Keep reading that, and you'll find that adnzzzz... mentions that
1. The updater is a separate project, and
2. The actual game is contained in a file inside the updater's save directory.
(3. lfs.mount iirc can't mount anything from within the .love file itself)

I was referencing the fact that you can't execute one love file from within another; i did suggest other solutions that should work.

oops, I totally missed the 'inside' in the OP.