Your first program

Your first program

I guess your first program would have to be the ubiquitous "Hello World".

If you think it kinda sucks you may want to skip to the next tutorial :-)

If not, so open up a file in the directory you extracted this archive to (normally named "murgaLua").

And type the following :

       fltk.fl_message("Hello Word")

       print("Hello World")

Save the file as "helloWorld.lua", and then run at the prompt :

       bin/murgaLua helloWorld.lua

REMEMBER - If you are running in Windows the slash ("/") goes the other way, so do "bin\murgaLua".

Anyway, you'll see a nice FLTK message box with "Hello World", and the same on the standard Lua console output.

Linux users may want to copy "murgaLua" to "/usr/bin", and put the following as the first line of the program :

       #!/usr/bin/murgaLua