Actually what I'm doing is (I think) really simple, but since I have
yet to seriously use Lua, I'm probably doing this all wrong, like
bitflags =).
I have an API call in my framework to "set the current table" so that
I can then iterate over its members or find a member. Since I wasn't
aware of a special table name for the globals, I would simply call
lua_getglobals() if I wanted to select the global table.
I had a fairly simple scanner that would then allow me to reference
items in C code as if it were a directory structure, e.g. if I wanted
to access foo.x.y I could specify it as:
getValue( "/foo/x/y" );
but if "foo" was already selected, I could also do:
selectTable( "x" );
getValue( "y" );
etc.
So the important bit is that sometimes I wanted to set the global
table as current, and other times I wanted to select a named table,
depending on where I was trying to search the name space.
Does this make sense?
Brian
