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Author:  weegee [ Mon Jan 10, 2011 1:46 am ]
Post subject:  Listing directories in Lua
Is there any way to get the contents of a directory in CC 's Lua? I've tried to do os.execute("dir /b") but it switches window to console and this is totally unacceptable. Thanks in advance :)
Author:  mail2345 [ Mon Jan 10, 2011 2:24 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Listing directories in Lua
Maybe code up your own small program to return a directory listing, then io.popen.
Author:  weegee [ Mon Jan 10, 2011 2:29 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Listing directories in Lua
I guess it will switch windows too. Oh and shipping custom executable with a mod, this is pure evil :oops:
Author:  mail2345 [ Mon Jan 10, 2011 3:22 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Listing directories in Lua
Well then, looks like we have to go down to another level of hell and make a custom library.
Author:  weegee [ Mon Jan 10, 2011 3:32 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Listing directories in Lua
Like DLL or something? Then I'll have to port it to MacOS and maybe Linux. I don't need directories THAT much :)
Author:  Mehman [ Mon Jan 10, 2011 9:11 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Listing directories in Lua
Well I know you can read and write files but I don't know about listing directories.
Author:  Patriot24 [ Mon Jan 10, 2011 2:31 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Listing directories in Lua
mail2345 wrote:
Well then, looks like we have to go down to another level of hell and make a custom library.


Truly shipping a custom executable is far worse than simply compiling an external library. You wouldn't even need to do much, simply make a function that runs dir args and returns the output to lua. It wouldn't switch windows.
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