Editing With External Text Editor - How To Run?

hiheelhottie · March 28, 2011, 7:11am

Hello,

I’d like to edit TestPad.lua in an external editor. Is there a quick way to get that file to load after saving from the external editor? It looks like the only way to run a file is

‘Command + R’ Save and Run the current Tabs File

If TestPad.lua is already loaded in the Renoise’s editor, it does not automatically pick up the changes from the external editor. It looks like it’s necessary to close, open again, and cmd+r to run.

Conner_Bw · March 28, 2011, 12:05pm

Maybe this can help?

–===========================================================================
– Autoreloading Tool Scripts
–===========================================================================

When working with Renoise’s Scripting Editor, saving a script will
automatically reload the tool that belongs to the file. This way you can simply
change your files and immediately see/test the changes.
When changing any files that are part of the “Libraries” folder, all scripts
will get reloaded.

When working with an external text editor, you can enable the following debug
option somewhere in the tool’s main.lua file:

_AUTO_RELOAD_DEBUG = function()
– do tests like showing a dialog, prompts whatever, or simply do nothing
end

As soon as you save your script outside of Renoise, and then focus Renoise again
(alt-tab to Renoise, for example), your script will instantly get reloaded and
the notifier is called.

If you don’t need a notifier to be called each time the script reloads, you
can also simply set _AUTO_RELOAD_DEBUG to true:

_AUTO_RELOAD_DEBUG = true

Cut and paste from:

hiheelhottie · April 3, 2011, 8:53am

Hi there,

Thanks for digging this out of the docs for me.

taktik · April 3, 2011, 10:03am

Please note that this does not work for “TestPad.lua”. _AUTO_RELOAD_DEBUG only works for tools, xrnx bundles.