lua-akfavatar

NAME

lua-akfavatar − Lua interpreter for the AKFAvatar user interface

SYNOPSIS

lua-akfavatar [options] [ script [args] ]

DESCRIPTION

The program Lua-AKFAvatar is the Lua interpreter for the AKFAvatar user interface. It loads and executes Lua scripts in source form (not bytecode). Either Lua scripts can be loaded or ".avt" demo files. If no script is given, it starts with a file-selector.

The given args are available to script as strings in a global table named arg. The script itself is in arg[0], the first argument is arg[1] and so on.

You have to use the command local avt = require "lua-akfavatar" to get access to the AKFAvatar specific functions.

With the file-selector you can also see documentation files with the file extension ".about". These can be simple text files encoded in UTF-8 or plain ASCII. They can use the "overstrike" technique for bold or underlined text. You can for example use the text-setting system "groff" to generate such files.

OPTIONS

--version

print version information

-l [var=]name

call require("name") before executing the script. Sets a global variable with the name or var. Typically used to load libraries.

--fullscreen

start in fullscreen mode (only if no script is given)

--Fullscreen

start in fullscreen mode without switching the resolution (only if no script is given)

--dir=dir

start the file-selector in that directory (only if no script is given)

ENVIRONMENT

LUA_PATH_5_2
LUA_PATH

searchpath for Lua modules. Templates are separated with semicolons. A question mark (?) is replaced with the module name. A dot in the module name is replaced with the directory separator. Two semicolons (;;) add the default path.

LUA_CPATH_5_2
LUA_CPATH

searchpath for C modules. Syntax like in LUA_PATH.

AVTDATAPATH

searchpath for data files (images, audio, texts...). It gets stored in the variable avt.datapath and can be used with the function avt.search(filename). The directories are separated with semicolons. Unlike the former paths there are no templates with question marks.

EXAMPLE

local avt = require "lua-akfavatar"
avt.encoding("UTF-8")
avt.title("my first program")
avt.start()
avt.avatar_image("default")
avt.say("Hello there!\n")
local name = avt.ask("What’s your name? ")
avt.say("Hello, ", name, ". Nice to meet you!\n")
avt.wait_button()

SECURITY

Lua is a complete programming language. There are no sandbox limitations. Any such programming language can be misused to write malicious code. So keep in mind that Lua scripts are programs and should be treated with the same care as other programs. Some other input files for Lua-AKFAvatar could contain code, too.

AUTHORS

HOMEPAGE

http://akfavatar.nongnu.org/

SEE ALSO

lua(1) lua-akfavatar-ref(3) akfavatar-graphic(3) akfavatar-term(3) akfavatar.utf8(3)

http://akfavatar.nongnu.org/manual/
http://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/