Re: Re: Lua with ints and floats

[Renato Cerqueira <rcerq@...>]

At 09:41 10/07/00 -0300, Martin_Doering@mn.man.de wrote:
> I also thought about such things. I thought about developing a small
> graphics lib for lua. There are preprocessor defines in header files like:
>
> #define WHITE 0xFFFFFF
> #define BLACK 0x000000
>
> If I would use the lib, I think I should make real variables (floats or
> better strings) from them, because otherwise a lua script, which uses the
> lib would not know about them, if I would just use $defines for them on
> the lua side.
>
> There are so much libs. How is this handled e.g. in the IUP binding for
> Lua?
>
> Martin

Hi Martin,

In Iup, all attributes are strings,
making the IupLua binding quite straightforward.
For instance, the white color is represented by "255 255 255".


Regards,
Renato
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Renato Cerqueira
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