Forcing a reload of an embedded lua file.

[Graham Nicholls <graham.nicholls@...>]

I wonder if anyone can help, and if I’m asking in the wrong place, firstly my apologies, and secondly, please let me know where I should be asking.

 

The situation I have is that Lua is being used to provide a scripting interface to a larger app.  The Lua interpreter is embedded in the application, and loads lua files at startup. 

 

I’d like to be able to ask the application to reload a particular (or all) files.

I suspect that I’m looking in all the wrong places, but is there a lua function to “reload myself”?

I’d then do something like:

 

If (newer_version_of_file_exists) ; then

        Reload_self

End

When a certain trigger was passed to the (Lua) program. 

This would be very useful as the app takes a while (up to an hour) to startup.

Thanks

Graham Nicholls

 

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