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281. Re: The future of the Lua Forums (score: 5)

Author: Stefan <stefan@...>

Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 14:04:42 -0700

While I agree with you in the sense that this is a very large wheel to be reinventing, I unfortunately can't recommend any other existing forum software because they all have major problems of some s

282. Re: why tostring for number use LUA_NUMBER_FMT "%.14g", not "%.16g" ? (score: 5)

Author: Carsten Fuchs <carsten.fuchs@...>

Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 11:43:33 +0200

Hi all, Am 2013-09-10 11:02, schrieb Tim Hill: 1. Serializing a float as a string is not, inherently, bad. Serializing it as a floating-point decimal literal string is, however, asking for trouble. T

283. Re: I call bullshit (score: 5)

Author: Sean Conner <sean@...>

Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 19:50:28 -0400

It was thus said that the Great Petite Abeille once stated: He does have another place that is worthy of his talent and passion, the Lua-OS mailing list: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?

284. Re: lua.stackexchange.com? (score: 5)

Author: Paul Hudson <phudson@...>

Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2013 08:23:40 +0100

It doesn't really happen so much on stackexchange (which isn't a forum - or at least not a discussion forum).  Questions tend to get mostly related answers and comments, extended discussions are dis

285. Re: Lua library bank? (score: 5)

Author: dcharno <dcharno@...>

Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:08:31 -0400

I asked if John Murga would consider releasing the code on GitHub (or something similar) so others could help make builds or contribute bug fixes. He seemed receptive but there hasn't been any progre

286. Re: Lua library bank? (score: 5)

Author: phlnc8 <phlnc8@...>

Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 13:22:05 -0400

Oooops... didn't check the post date: 12-27-2011 :(

287. Re: Lua library bank? (score: 5)

Author: phlnc8 <phlnc8@...>

Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 13:13:38 -0400

It looks like John Murga is preparing a new, vastly enhanced, release of MurgaLua. See http://www.murga-projects.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=418 Phil

288. Re: Ice breakers (score: 5)

Author: Ralph Hempel <rhempel@...>

Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2012 05:57:11 -0500

You mean, 'ways to learn Lua that are not scary'? steve d. Once you get past the basics, and you want some interactivity that's not screen based, you can try my pbLua - Lua for LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT It

289. Re: Seemingly inconsistency between function in a local variable and local function (score: 5)

Author: Jerome Vuarand <jerome.vuarand@...>

Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 14:33:16 +0200

2012/4/2 Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com>: Every time you write the keyword "local", you create/declare a new local variable, which can shadow another one with the same name. For example in

290. Seemingly inconsistency between function in a local variable and local function (score: 5)

Author: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>

Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 14:22:25 +0200

Hi, while musing about http://forum.luahub.com/index.php?topic=3559.0 I ran across this: do --[[ all these do NOT work local f2 local f2 = nil local function f2() end --]] local function f1() return

291. Re: ANN: Search for Lua Code Snippets (score: 5)

Author: Elias Barrionovo <elias.tandel@...>

Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:32:10 -0200

Cool! Perhaps github.com as well? -- Sent from my mobile device NI!

292. ANN: Search for Lua Code Snippets (score: 5)

Author: marbux <marbux@...>

Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:57:33 -0800

Hi, all, This is to announce availability of Google Custom Search for Lua code snippets at <http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=008288205967525494465:tvl1lftpphg>. The facility currently searches pages

293. Re: Struggling with _ENV in Lua 5.2 (score: 5)

Author: Daurnimator <quae@...>

Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:23:33 +1100

2011/11/11 Procházka Luká? Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. <LPr@pontex.cz>: In the interpreter each line is a chunk, i.e. locals only last for the line they are on.

294. Struggling with _ENV in Lua 5.2 (score: 5)

Author: Procházka Luká? Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. <LPr@...>

Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 08:13:23 +0100

Hello, I have the following problem with Lua 5.2 build on Windows, MSVC 2008: -- Lua 5.2.0 (beta) Copyright (C) 1994-2011 Lua.org, PUC-Rio local t = {x=10,y=20} local f1 do local _ENV=t function f1()

295. LuaGnome: gdk_pixbuf_new_from_data and related not found (score: 5)

Author: HyperHacker <hyperhacker@...>

Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 22:29:31 -0600

I've just downloaded the latest version from Github and compiled, and (after some messing with header files[1]) it compiled and installed without a problem, but some functions are missing. gdk.pixbuf

296. Re: problem with require in combined lua/c++ project using VS2010 (score: 5)

Author: Oskar Forsslund <matrixsmurfen@...>

Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:30:08 +0200

First, you are linked against a debug version of DX9. You should see a dependency on d3dx9_41.dll, not d3dx9d_41.dll. This is probably due to checking the dependencies of a debug build of your appli

297. Re: native.newTextField() (score: 5)

Author: Matthew Wild <mwild1@...>

Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 23:22:31 -0400

Hi Michelle, Lua is a very basic language that is designed to be embedded into 3rd party apps and tools such as Corona, and extended with functions and APIs specific to that app. The newTextField() f

298. Re: LuaDoc (score: 5)

Author: David Manura <dm.lua@...>

Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 20:47:05 -0400

I had spent some time with NaturalDocs a few years ago. It looked promising, but my main complaint at the time was that the grammar didn't have a formal specification [1]. [1] http://sourceforge.net/

299. Re: Lua + Rigidchips (score: 5)

Author: Andrew Wilson <agrwagrw@...>

Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 11:03:27 -0500

Hello, the names Tim. I am a high school student, and has become interested in Lua. I was introduced to it from a game I found for a Sandbox simulation, call Rigidchips. Official page, http://www.ia

300. Lua + Rigidchips (score: 5)

Author: Sean-JJ KM8 <s.jc@...>

Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 09:53:14 -0600

Hello, the names Tim. I am a high school student, and has become interested in Lua. I was introduced to it from a game I found for a Sandbox simulation, call Rigidchips. Official page, http://www.iam