Added missing optional parameter from love.physics.setMode (#76).
Added missing variant love.graphics.newQuad(x, y, width, height, texture) (#75).
Fixed an issue with love.joystickpressed and love.joystickreleased. Now using an object instead of a number.
Added variant to love.graphics.setCanvas using a CanvasSetup object.
love.graphics.setCanvas(setup);This CanvasSetup object can be tricky to write using TypeScript. It can be thought of like an array and an object with properties. See below for an example use case.
const allowStencil: CanvasSetup = { stencil: true };
allowStencil[1] = canvas;
love.graphics.setCanvas(allowStencil);Note that this object has to be indexed at
1.
This can also be written as below:
love.graphics.setCanvas({
[1]: canvas,
stencil: true,
});The latter approach may be harder to troubleshoot when encountering type errors.
Also added missing name parameter to love.filesystem.newFileData.
These types have been complete without major rewrites for a while. A new versioning scheme will now be implemented similar to TypeScript type packages.
The [email protected] will line up with LOVE 2D 11.4 with the x being used to increment through patches for bugfixes for that version.
Also removed the docs to simplify and reduce the size of the package. Users can still use typedoc in their project to get types from this project as well as their own.
- BREAKING: Removed types that are defined globally. This is to prevent name clashing when mixing libraries
const image: Image = love.graphics.newImage("image.png");
// the "Image" type may clash with other librariesimport { Image } from "love.graphics";
// this statement only imports a type. it is removed when transpiled
const image: Image = love.graphics.newImage("image.png");- +1 World method
World.getContacts()- Correction to
love.graphics.setColor(a is optional)
+ love.graphics.setColor(r, g, b)
love.graphics.setColor(r, g, b, a)- Improved
love.filesystem.getInfo
const info = love.filesystem.getInfo("file.txt", "file");
if (info) {
info.type; // This must be a file
}- Correction to
love.filesystem.getRealDirectory
+ const [path, err] = love.filesystem.getRealDirectory("file");
- const path = love.filesystem.getRealDirectory("file");- Noted some potentially fatal errors that can occur in
love.filesystem.
- +1 love.filesystem.write variants
love.filesystem.write(name, string, size);- Stopped
love.graphics.newTextpotentially returningundefined - +2 love.isVersionCompatible variants
+ love.isVersionCompatible(version);
+ love.isVersionCompatible(major, minor, revision);- Added love.handlers typings. Custom handlers can now be defined
// define a new event
declare interface CustomHandlers {
handler: (this: void, a: string) => void;
}
// handle event
love.handlers.handler = (a) => print(a);
// dispatch event
love.event.push("handler", "Hello World");- Renamed
LoveObjecttoType - Renames
LoveObjectstoTypes - Added
colorFromBytes - Changed some documentation
- Added clickable links to docs
- Inlined return values
Docs are now available.
Access them at node_modules/love-typescript-definitions/docs/index.html.
Declarations now include 11.3 changes.
See that changelog here.
There are now two ways to call LÖVE's functions.
love.graphics.newImage("image.png");import { newImage } from "love.graphics";
newImage("image.png");These modules contain all of LÖVE's functions, types and enums.
Advantages:
- Doesn't pollute the environment with all of LÖVE's types
- Reveals code's reliance on LÖVE's API
- Code is easier to adapt to any LuaJIT environment
- Enables LÖVE modules to be mocked for testing instead of using bootstrap scripts to create objects
Also good for users who prefer to avoid global variables.
Here are the type paths to use for choosing one of these two methods:
| Type Path | Description |
|---|---|
love-typescript-definitions |
All types, structs, modules and the love namespace will be globally available. |
/modules |
Only LÖVE's modules will be globally available. (love.graphics, etc) |
/namespace |
Exposes the love namespace purely for overriding callbacks. |
VS Code can automatically create import paths to members within these declarations.
If you want to use LÖVE in this modular way, configure your types in your tsconfig.json like so:
{
"types": [
"love-typescript-definitions/modules",
"love-typescript-definitions/namespace",
"love-typescript-definitions"
]
}love.data.PackedDatamust be accessed in a different way. Use...import("love.data").PackedDataorimport { PackedData } from "love.data"
- Enhanced love.data.pack and love.data.unpack keep track of the formatting and values to create the packed value for type safety.
function unpack(
packedData: love.data.PackedData<{
format: "n1";
values: [1, 2, 3, 4];
}>,
) {
love.data.unpack("n1", packedData);
}
unpack(love.data.pack("data", "n1", 1, 2, 3));
// ❌ Expected 4 values to be packed
unpack(love.data.pack("data", "n2", 1, 2, 3, 4));
// ❌ Unsupported formatting
unpack(love.data.pack("data", "n1", 1, 2, 3, 4));
// ✔- Enhanced love.system.getOS. It can only return one of a select number of strings.
switch (love.system.getOS()) {
case "Android":
case "Linux":
case "OS X":
case "UWP":
case "Unknown":
case "Windows":
case "iOS":
case "PSP": // ❌ Impossible unless the source was modified
}- Removed SoundData and Decoder's getChannels method. This was removed.
- Updated love.timer.step removing a variant that did not exist.
- Enhanced LoveObject.type, LoveObject.typeOf and LoveObject.release to determine types.
function useQuad(quad: Quad) {
const equal = quad.type() === "Channel";
// ❌ Impossible. Quad types return "Quad".
}/**
* @param object Any object. Unknown what it is. It could be one of 56 types.
*/
function useObject(object: LoveObject): void {
if (object.typeOf("Image")) {
const [width, height] = object.getDimensions();
// ✔ TypeScript knows object is an Image type.
// So this code shouldn't fail.
}
object.getDimensions();
// ❌ TypeScript knows getDimensions doesn't exist on every LoveObject.
// So this won't work for those cases.
}function releaseImage(image: Image) {
if (image.release()) {
// ❌ TypeScript doesn't allow this call.
// It knows image does not exist.
image.getDimensions();
}
}- Enhanced love.filesystem.lines and File#lines allowing them to be used in a for..of loop. (Requires
--downLevelIteration)
for (const line of love.filesystem.lines("file.txt")) {
print(line);
}- +2 Canvas functions. -1 and +1 variant.
+ canvas.generateMipmaps();
+ canvas.getMSAA();
canvas.newImageData();
- canvas.newImageData(x, y, width, height);
+ canvas.newImageData(slice, mipmap, x, y, width, height);- -2 deprecated ParticleSystem methods.
- particleSystem.getAreaSpread
- particleSystem.setAreaSpread- +1 love.filesystem.newFile variant.
+ love.filesystem.newFile(filename);
love.filesystem.newFile(filename, mode);- +2 love.filesystem.getInfo variants
+ love.filesystem.getInfo(path, filetype)
love.filesystem.getInfo(path, info)
+ love.filesystem.getInfo(path, filetype, info)- +1 love.filesystem.read variant.
love.filesystem.read(name, size)
+ love.filesystem.read("string", name, size)
+ love.filesystem.read("file", name, size)- Using undefined instead of null for missing values.
- Added __opaque to LoveObject. This stops users being able to create any LoveObject not using one Love's API.
- Added __drawable to Drawable. This stops LoveObject types being used as a Drawable object since LoveObject and Drawable are equivalent TS types.
- +2 enum values
"borderellipse"and"borderrectangle"added to AreaSpreadDistribution.
- Improved indenting of example code.
- Added some tables to describe string enums.
- Removed FileInfo, ArrayImageSettings and Conf and added them directly to their only associated function.
- It is now possible to extend the path used when referencing these types in tsconfig.json files.
love-typescript-definitionsall LÖVE 2D declarations.love-typescript-definitions/typings/modulesall LÖVE 2D's modules but not love's callbacks and functions.love-typescript-definitions/typings/loveall of love's functions.love-typescript-definitions/typings/love.callbacksall of love's callbacks.
- +2 love.graphics.draw variants
love.graphics.draw(image);
love.graphics.draw(image, quad);
+ love.graphics.draw(image, transform);
+ love.graphics.draw(image, quad, transform);- +1 love.graphics.clear variant. This was possible to write before but now TypeScript will display the correct documentation when highlighting the fourth variant.
love.graphics.clear();
love.graphics.clear(0, 0, 0);
love.graphics.clear([0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0], true, true);
+ love.graphics.clear(true, 255, 255);-
Modified love.graphics.stencil's function argument.
Functionto() => void -
Modified love.graphics.captureScreenshot's function argument.
Functionto() => void -
+1 love.graphics.newCanvas variant. Used to create a volume or array texture-type Canvas.
love.graphics.newCanvas();
love.graphics.newCanvas(100, 100);
love.graphics.newCanvas(100, 100, {});
+ love.graphics.newCanvas(100, 100, 80);- +2 love.graphics.newFont variants.
love.graphics.newFont("font.ttf");
+ love.graphics.newFont("font.ttf", 12, "normal");
love.graphics.newFont("font.bmf", "image.png");
+ love.graphics.newFont();- +1 documented love.graphics.newImage variant.
love.graphics.newImage("image.png");
love.graphics.newImage(imageData);
love.graphics.newImage(compressedImageData);
+ love.graphics.newImage("image.png", { linear: false });- +1 documented love.graphics.newImageFont variant.
love.graphics.newImageFont("abc.png", "abc");
love.graphics.newImageFont(imageData, "abc");
love.graphics.newImageFont("abc.png", "abc", 0);
+ love.graphics.newImageFont(imageData, "abc", 0);- +1 documented love.graphics.newParticleSystem variant.
+ love.graphics.newParticleSystem(image);
love.graphics.newParticleSystem(canvas);- +2 love.graphics.newVideo variants
- -1 love.graphics.newVideo variant. This variant was deprecated.
love.graphics.newVideo("video.mp4");
love.graphics.newVideo(videoStream);
+ love.graphics.newVideo("video.mp4", {});
+ love.graphics.newVideo(videoStream, {});
- love.graphics.newVideo(videoStream, false);- +2 love.graphics.setNewFont variants.
+ love.graphics.setNewFont();
love.graphics.setNewFont("font.ttf");
love.graphics.setNewFont(file);
love.graphics.setNewFont(data);
+ love.graphics.setNewFont(rasterizer);- Removed
Statsinterface to improve the tooltip display of love.graphics.getStats.