tolua or not-tolua? RE: FW: P.s. SDL for LuaMax

[Asko Kauppi <Asko.Kauppi@...>]

I've sent my beta Lua/SDL (using GluaX & lua-style interfacing) to Thatcher
for comments but haven't heard anything from him since. The code's pretty
much there and e.g. Thatcher's (remarkable!) MeteorShower runs on it. I
predict my solution to be faster but haven't checked this. Ease of usage is
probably most important there anyways.

I'll be able to get that polished in a few weeks if there is 'market' for
it...

The point with 'Full Moon edition' is to enlarge the Lua community & show
the best features of the language. It won't happen if all the APIs are
C-alikes, I'm afraid. Lua will be regarded as
just-another-scripting-language.

-ak



-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Spernau [mailto:martin@traumwind.de]
Sent: 10. helmikuuta 2003 15:57
To: Asko Kauppi
Subject: Re: FW: P.s. SDL for LuaMax


I do agree with you about tolua based bindings being 'rough'.
But considering that Thatcher Ulrich (who is a very good C-Programmer I 
assume) has do this, I guess it's enough for him to simply be able to 
use SDL from Lua.

The same problem arises with most GUI bindings I've seen. wxLua, LuaFLTK 
etc. are all done in a similar way (wxLua at least tries to do a few 
things more Lua-like)

Myself not being a real good C/C++ programmer, I have little choice in 
this, sadly.

-Martin


Asko Kauppi wrote:

>I've looked at LuaSDL briefly and in many ways, I believe the interfacing
is
>not ideal. As with toLua in general, it gives you 1-to-1 C/Lua interfaces,
>that do not use advanced lua-kind features s.a. multiple return values, lua
>tables, etc... 
>
>I may be wrong about this but as-far-as-i-remember the tolua LuaSDL was
>quite a mess.
>
>-ak
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Martin Spernau [mailto:martin@traumwind.de]
>Sent: 10. helmikuuta 2003 13:18
>To: Multiple recipients of list
>Subject: Re: P.s. SDL for LuaMax
>
>
>As LuaSDL is already loadmodule ready it's no big deal to include it in 
>LuaMAX4. It depends on tolua, so we'll need to wait for tolus5 to have 
>it for Lua5 (as for many modules)
>http://lua-users.org/wiki/LuaModuleLuaSdl
>-Martin
>
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