lua running from editor or engine

[Rick]

Was just thinking it would be nice if the engine.exe and editor.exe both created a lua variable so our main lua applications can tell where it's being called from. Different things need to happen depending on where it's called from and this would be a nice easy way of telling.

 

A few different things that I can think of depending on where the main lua file is being run from:

 

1. Create framework. If run from the editor we don't need to do this. If run from the engine we do. A check of fw == nil does work, but this would be an added support.

 

2. Load a sandbox map. When from the editor the map is the current map, but when from the engine you need to load a map. Knowing the main lua file is being called from the engine, we can then load a map.

 

I know we can check if the fw variable is nil, but that might not work in every situation. A person might not use the fw variable at all. Having the executable "pass in" a value indicating where it's called from would just be a more concrete approach in my view.