[JW Lua] v0.67/Lua 5.4 report from Perfect Layout - solved it

[Robert Patterson]

It searches for a line starting with "function plugindef()" and then scans
until the next end statement that starts a line. If there is a plugindef
function inside a multiline comment, that might do it. As far as I can
tell, this is the behavior of JW Lua as well, though I might have missed
something. For example, my code takes the first plugindef function it
finds, whereas JW Lua might take the last.

On Sat, Mar 18, 2023 at 1:34 PM Jan Angermüller <jan at angermueller.com>
wrote:

> Could it be that there is some letter / letter combination that stops the
> search for plugindef? Maybe on Windows only?
>
> When I only put a simple *if ... then end*  before plugindef(), it still
> works fine.
> But in Perfect Layout the plugindef was somewhere on line 400 or so and
> that was not detected.
>
> Jan
>
> Am 18.03.2023 um 19:23 schrieb Robert Patterson:
>
> The location of the plugindef function is not supposed to matter. Let me
> see if I can reproduce that here.
>
> On Sat, Mar 18, 2023 at 8:42 AM Jan Angermüller <jan at angermueller.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Robert,
>>
>> thanks for your quick response!
>>
>>
>>    -  Is it possible you requested the embedded version in the wrong
>>    `plugindef` function?
>>
>> Solved it!
>> The problem had indeed to do with the plugindef function.
>>
>> The plugindef function was only recognized correctly by RGP Lua when it
>> was at the very top of the plug-in code.
>>
>> Usually the plugindef is not at the top of the (uncompiled) version of
>> Perfect Layout.
>> But when I moved it to the very first line of the code, it worked.
>> Is this the expected behaviour in RGP Lua?
>>
>> As the compiled version of Perfect Layout works different (with a second
>> file that requires the main plug-in code), it is probably different there.
>> But I haven't checked a compiled Perfect Layout version with 5.4 yet. I
>> assume it will work though.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>    - That's weird about ZeroBraneStudio. I've been using it
>>    interchangeably between 5.2 and 5.4 without issues. Maybe mine was a newer
>>    installation.
>>
>> Could be that your installation was newer. I didn't reinstall
>> ZeroBraneStudio.
>>
>>
>>    - Should I investigate the `tonumber` issue?
>>
>> Any other opinions?
>> I rarely use it and it was only one line in the code that had the problem.
>>
>> I'll run more tests with my test suite later.
>>
>> Jan
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