Re: Ctx goes into infinite loop?

From: "Lukáš Procházka" <LPr@pontex.cz>
To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Ctx goes into infinite loop?
Date: Sun, 25 May 2014 13:33:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.xgeyd9xmf14xzu@lkzd-2013> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <537F58B9.3070005@gmx.net>

Hello,

I solved the problem.

I was "requiring" a Lua .dll at some place in Ctx \s...luacode, namely LuaXml_Lib.dll.

I didn't realize that Ctx found the lib, but that have been compiled for Lua 5.1.

So, with my "ancient" Ctx version (5/2012, which I've been using often so far), all worked well as LuaXml_Lib was compatible with that version of Ctx.

Once I tried the latest Ctx beta, there was a failure;
and it appeared like "cannot locate file ... " error.

I built a Lua 5.2 version of LuaXml_Lib and all works well now with the latest Ctx.

- If some interested why I'm using LuaXml_Lib with Ctx, when Ctx provides its own XML API,
the reason is that I often save Excel tables as "Excel XML table" to allow Lua scripts access them, especially I'm using Excel "named regions/variables" which are later transformed into Lua tables.
I need an independent XML tool for this; LuaXML_Lib (http://viremo.eludi.net/LuaXML) does the job.

And also I need to do similar things with Ctx;
thus I need LuaXML_Lib to be accessible from within Ctx.

- Question: when is Ctx supposed to adopt Lua 5.3?

Best regards,

Lukas

On Fri, 23 May 2014 16:18:33 +0200, Peter Rolf <indiego@gmx.net> wrote:

> Am 23.05.2014 13:50, schrieb Hans Hagen:
>> On 5/23/2014 1:30 PM, Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>>>> \input \HOME/Common/_Defs_.ctx
>>>>
>>>> at least put { } around the input name
>>>
>>> --
>>> \startluacode
>>>    local home = (os.getenv("HOME.ORG") or os.getenv("HOME") or
>>> "?"):gsub("\\", "/")
>>>
>>>    context.setvalue("HOME", home)
>>> \stopluacode
>>>
>>> \input{\HOME/Common/_Defs_.ctx}
>>>
>>> \starttext
>>>    Test
>>> \stoptext
>>>

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