[JW Lua] Serialize data (write to/read from file)

[Jari Williamsson]

On 2013-11-14 21:00, Bart Visser wrote:

> I regularly have to ‘transfer' a song from one layout into another
> (say if one song has to be in two different hymnbooks). Because of
> all the power we now have with JW Lua, I’m looking into a way to
> transform the layout of a score. In order to do so, I need a
> way to save layout-data (such as fonts, system-margins and the
> placements of file-info texts). Is there a way to serialize
> JW Lua-data (or just a Lua table) for later retrieval?

Somewhere in the future, I hope to have save/retrieval both to/from temp 
memory and a preference file.

For now, you can use the standard io library (included in JW Lua) to 
read/write text or binary files.

> I’ve installed a few rocks (luajson, luayaml), but can’t
> seem to use those from within JW Lua.

LuaRocks isn't supported at this time. I'll put that on the feature 
suggestion list.


Best regards,

Jari Williamsson