Lua+ on require

would it be possible to check whenever the require inbuild function is called?

Just register your own function that calls require

but I want to use the inbuild require aswell :[

Loop through the whole script, searching for 'require', excluding string and comments, and replace it by requireX, then register that function :D

that would be annoying to do with 53 files spread through 7 folders with an unknown number of subfolders

or if you had the requires inside another function, like:

Code:

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function load()
    blah = require("whatever")
    signal()
end

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it might even be better to do that if you ever need to reload whatever was used by require

the reason I want it to be require is because its recognized by alot of lua editing programs such as Notepad++. I already thought of that, Xgoff, but I figured having the require function as the one would be better.

about the only other thing i can think of, then, is overwriting the standard require with your own function after moving the real require to some other variable

Code:

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require2 = require
require = function (...)
    alert_function()
    return require2(...)
end

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that's pretty crude but it might work, though i don't know if modules will use that one or the default require

That *might* work, I need to test it out. Hold on.

ilu Xgoff <3 It worked beautifully. Thanks!

Wow, nice. Didn't know that's possible, I'll definitely memorize this!

Quote:

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Originally Posted by xyzzy

... i don't know if modules will use that one or the default require

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Your solution should work perfectly fine (it's the preferred way to do it, actually) because 'require' is a global unless imported modules change it themselves.
Also, make require2 a local, or usercode will have access to the 'real' require :)

ANOTHER QUESTION

how would I, inside Lua, send the relative path of a file?

Say I have a function called loadImage(path)

how would I load it depending on the script location?
I was thinking something like loadImage("./image.png")

how would I achieve that? :o