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lifeviewer.lua not working

Posted: November 13th, 2019, 6:56 pm
by creeperman7002
When I try to run "lifeviewer.lua", this error pops up:

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...YouWillNeverKnow\AppData\Local\Temp\gol99F0.tmp\lifeviewer.lua:1780:
overlay error: given file does not exist

stack traceback:
[C]: in function 'ov'
...YouWillNeverKnow\AppData\Local\Temp\gol99F0.tmp\lifeviewer.lua:1780: in function 'createmenu'
...YouWillNeverKnow\AppData\Local\Temp\gol99F0.tmp\lifeviewer.lua:1818: in function 'setupoverlay'
...YouWillNeverKnow\AppData\Local\Temp\gol99F0.tmp\lifeviewer.lua:1839: in function 'main'
[C]: in function 'xpcall'
...YouWillNeverKnow\AppData\Local\Temp\gol99F0.tmp\lifeviewer.lua:2077: in main chunk
I am running Windows 10 Home Version 1903.

EDIT: nvm, figured it out. I tried running it from the .ZIP, which doesn't work. Running it outside of the .ZIP helps.

Re: lifeviewer.lua not working

Posted: November 13th, 2019, 7:05 pm
by dvgrn
creeperman7002 wrote: November 13th, 2019, 6:56 pm When I try to run "lifeviewer.lua", this error pops up:

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...YouWillNeverKnow\AppData\Local\Temp\gol99F0.tmp\lifeviewer.lua:1780:
overlay error: given file does not exist
How is lifeviewer.lua getting into a temporary folder, exactly? I can get an error similar to this to appear if I copy the text of the script to the clipboard and try File > Run Clipboard. But if I click on lifeviewer.lua in the File > Show Files treeview, it seems to run correctly.