Re: Question about using Lua for defining GUIs

["Peter Hill" <corwin@...>]

pixellent@stodge.net:
> I'm using Lua in a game framework that I'm prototyping and I'd like to try
> to use Lua as a GUI definition language.
(snip sample)
> Now I know that the above doesn't work, but it's what I would like.

Why doesn't your example work? Aside from a comma missing after
    size = "640 480"
it seems like a perfectly legal & workable statement.

Eg, (snipping out bits to shorten it) we have:
  CreateGUI
    {
    name = "Canvas",
    bitmap = "./bitmaps/bitmap.jpg",
    size = "640 480",
    CreateComponent
      {
      type = "ClockComponent",
      name = "Clock",
      size = "100 100"
      }
    }

which is equivalent to

  local cmpt =
    CreateComponent
      {
      type = "ClockComponent",
      name = "Clock",
      size = "100 100"
      }

  CreateGUI
    {
    name = "Canvas",
    bitmap = "./bitmaps/bitmap.jpg",
    size = "640 480",
    [1] = cmpt
    }

Am I missing the point here?

*cheers*
Peter Hill.