Re: Lua in C++

[Daniel Silverstone <dsilvers@...>]

On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 03:46:41PM +0200, cougar@centrum.cz wrote:
> no reference to the original object. Is there some easy way of 
> storing my custom pointer within the lua_state or is there some 
> other solution to this problem?

One possibility is to use a userdata to store a pointer to your C++ class
instance, and then ensure that the userdata is passed to each of those
static functions (by using closures -- look at push_cclosure in your manual)

> I'm sorry if this is a stupid question. I'm a lua newbie.

We all were newbies once :)

D.

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