If anyone would like to see something added to the lua API for the programmable machines, then please post here!

Factoronics Programmable Lua Machines
I am posting this here to get the forum post ready for it!

What is this mod?

This mod allows users to program their machines ingame,
using lua! Essentially, this mod brings computercraft
to factorio! This mod is still in development, but it
has been ...

Update 12th April 2017: Nearing the release of 0.15 we have edited the roadmap to reflect the current plan for 0.15 and 0.16, as some things had to be pushed back, and other features were added.

Not everything we want to do is there, basically the main points. Also we can't guarantee we will be ...

ugh, i really wish there was a way to read files

it should be, but you would need to overwrite core files to do it, winch may cause mod conflicts with other mods.

Hello, i was wondering if it was possible, and if so, how to do, file reading/writing.

btw, i managed to get this to work :D


/c local ret, err = load('local test = 1 print("load: "..tostring(load))', "", "bt", {["print"] = game.player.print, ["tostring"] = tostring})() game.player.print(tostring(ret)..", "..tostring(err))


im happy about that :P thx again for the help, i didnt ...

DaveMcW wrote:The 4th argument to load() is what you want.

https://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/manual.html#pdf-load

how would i write to a file?

DaveMcW wrote:The 4th argument to load() is what you want.

https://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/manual.html#pdf-load

wow, that works lol thx, i know that they removed a few features specific to lua in their api, unfortunately, one of the more usefull ones was getfenv and setfenv

Hello, i was wondering if there was a workaround for using getfenv and setfenv, so i can add support for letting users adding basic lua code to their machines. If i cant use get/setfenv, then it will expose all game functions to the user, winch i was wanting to limit that with those functions.